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...political issue, Defense Day will probably turn out to be a "dud," forgotten as soon as the day is past. Only a few other Governors, such as Governor Sweet of Colorado, a progressive Democrat, and Governor Elaine of Wisconsin, a LaFollette supporter, fell in behind Governor Bryan...
General von Kluck: Comrades of that old army, which was as hard as steel, remember the greatness of our fathers and the heroism of our comrades who fell in battle. Let us continue to be true to our calling and let us place manly Truth and Honor above everything." But word had yet to come from the Saxon Field Marshal von Mackensen, reputed the first cavalry leader in the world, thought by many the ablest soldier Germany had in the War. What would the hero of a dozen Rus sian victories say? The white-haired soldier, now 74 years...
Then suddenly came news from the Associated Press at Buenos Aires, and from State Department advices at Washington, that after severe fighting in the streets, in which whippet tanks were employed, the beleagured city fell to the Federals. Most of the rebels were said to have escaped by train into the interior...
Next morning, the 400, their ranks swelled near to 1,500, entered cavernous Westminster Hall, ancient home of Anglo-Saxon Jurisprudence. Big Ben itolled; an impressive silence fell; the assemblage rose; the English Judges, richly dight, proceeded majestically behind the Golden Mace of the House of Lords and the Lord High Chancellor's purse-bearer. Motioned to their seats by the purse-bearer's Master, Lord Haldane, the U. S. barristers were formally welcomed, instructed in the legend and tradition of their surroundings. Here William Rufus had builded; here Coke and Bacon handed down...
...Budapest, one Martin Romler, barkeeper, tapped a barrel of beer, drew off two foaming steins. A customer drank one. He drank the other. A few seconds later, both simultaneously fell to the floor dead. In the barrel was discovered a drowned viper...