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Copley--"The Ghost Train"--8.30 o'clock--If only such things did happen in railway stations...
...Knibbs and Pearl, speaking as sociologists, may point out that the pitifully short lives full of hunger and misery endured by the peoples of China and India, and the economic disturbances of Western Europe, are due in large measure to high population density. What of it! It can never happen...
...second- was that of a profligate bankrupt, and this, his third, is a combination of both with jugglery and deceit added .- "I believe that the present budget offers us at best but a temporary reprieve by means of artful dodges. . . . I predict that, even if no unforseen events happen next year, the Chancellor [Mr. Churchill] will find himself having to face the country with a deficit. . . .† Finally, the blame for this deficit will rest upon the Government because of its policy during the coal Ktrike [TIME, May 10 to Nov. 29]." Significance. Behind the Conservative Cabinet supporting Chancellor Churchill...
Acting Mayor Fred B. Frazier of Chattanooga, Tenn.: "My wife and I received with anxious hands a special delivery letter. It read: 'We have your baby. It will take $3,333.33. She is all right, but last night was cold. We don't know what will happen this cold weather. Be ready with the money when we call you. This is not my writing, so you needn't try to trace me.' The police had failed to find the kidnapers of our two-year-old daughter, so we answered the letter, were soon informed...
...think he is one of the most shamefully maligned individuals in the civilized world. Possibly on that account he will not be called to the throne; but the chances are that his eldest son Wilhelm, who is quite a fine young man, will be. Politically, of course, anything may happen; but I doubt that the Kaiser will ever resume a position of authority. . . . When the great War lord turned tail and hid behind the skirts of the Queen of Holland that absolutely finished him in Germany. If any of you have seen the Queen of Holland you know that...