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...Defeated (34-to-32) an Interior Department appropriation bill rider by Michigan's Vandenberg authorizing the President to reorganize the executive departments for economy's sake...
...last hours as Kaiser, indecisive Wilhelm II asked General Groener whether he and other German officers would keep the oath they had sworn to their Emperor. Replied General Groener who today is Germany's Minister of Interior and Defense, "What is an oath, Your Majesty? It is only an idea...
...spendthrifts. Mayor Walker was not at all averse to posing at the piano as a postlude to the portrait of his cobbler. Other items in the first instalment of the Sobol newsreel were: a survey of the careers open to Follies girls, with three examples; a shot of the interior of a speakeasy, deleted by censors after one showing...
...modern, and the rooms incline to be dingy. Long, long before its six neighbors put in their mushroom-like appearance Adams House was there. Colonial Apthorp sheltered General Putnam; the captured Burgoyne lived in it when it were only a few of the forty coats of paint which the interior decorators removed in 1930. Westmorly Court and Randolph Hall rose when thick walls and Germanic gloom were the order of the day in architecture. To these has been added a structure for common rooms and library, whose Georgian exterior leaves the unsuspecting visitor unprepared for the array of carved...
...Ukko Pekka ("Old Man Pehr"), as he is known to his constituents, promptly put into force an emergency safety law permitting the Government to suppress papers, search houses, halt all armed forces. Next he reorganized the Cabinet, putting in loyal General K. L. Oesch as Assistant Minister of the Interior, specially charged with maintaining public safety. Against Lapuan hopes, the Finnish Civil Guard remained loyal. The Lapuan leaders, General Wallenius and Vihtor Kosula, issued a blast about "fighting to the last man," but thought better of it as hundreds of their followers quietly deserted and the revolt frittered...