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...have nothing to fear. If she is not loyal, she will not be spared." A few days later the Socialists became impatient. Premier Herriot, himself a Socialist, asked for 205,000,000 francs appropriation for continuing the occupation of the Ruhr. The Socialists thought France should quit the Ruhr forthwith, but the Premier put both feet down, took up a not unaggressive stand and said "No!" The Opposition thereupon warmed up and in a body supported the Premier. Twenty-six Communists, who always vote against everything, did the expected. Ninety-four Socialists, peeved at the Right and Centre for supporting...
RESOLVED: That a special committee of five Senators be elected forthwith to investigate and report to the Senate on Dec. 5, 1924, the campaign expenditures made by or on behalf of, or in support of, or in opposition to any and all candidates for President and Vice President and Presidential Electors; the names of all persons, firms or corporations contributing to the said candidate or candidates or their party commitee or committees, or any other agency; the amounts contributed, pledged, loaned or otherwise made available for use, the method of expenditures thereof, but, as to the facts in relation thereto...
...those days the marks were each worth $8,000,000, today they are worth about ¼ of a cent. A Potsdam confectioner displayed a picture of Frederick the Great in a show case. Police saw it. In they went and ordered the confectioner to remove it forthwith, stating that it was "a blot on the municipal landscape...
President Coolidge proclaimed the treaty in force forthwith. This particular treaty was negotiated as a sort of "test case" to determine the form of similar treaties to be made with other nations...
...London. A short time ago an incident occurred which irromediably shattered. Sir Henry's inherlted confidence in the fundamental goodness of his follow men, and seriously distifibed his belief in the applicability of his father's theories. A criminal was brought up for sentence, and instead of committing him forthwith to prison, the son of Charles Dickens found him a job and placed him on parole. Three months later the man was again in the dock. Sir Henry was disconsolate...