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...bone. For the present year, the appropriation is $341,000,000, of which $262,000,000 is strictly military, $70,000,000 is for rivers and harbors and nearly $9,000,000 for the Panama Canal. If the cut comes out of Rivers and Harbors, many hankerers after local improvements must go unsatisfied. If it comes out of the strictly military expenses, the Senate Military Affairs Committee is likely to object. Said Senator Wadsworth, Chairman (Republican of N. Y.) : "A further reduction would be suicide"; said Senator Fletcher of Florida, ranking Democrat : "There is such a thing as going...
...gentlemen here Belgium has sent its representative men with power to negotiate. The question before us is of narrow compass. There are but two parties to our negotiations. Politics, local or international, are not involved. We sit here, reasonable men, around a table. Under such conditions we will soon learn each others' viewpoints, determine the true facts governing the situation, and should reach an agreement fair to your country and to ours...
...crowds along the way applauded, but there was neither cheering nor jeering. The parade marched and was reviewed with complete good humor, if not unconcern. It was not the great parade planned two months ago-a national demonstration of 150,000 or 200,000 men. Nor was it the local affair which was announced a day or two before-a parade of the Washington and Maryland Klans...
Twenty to thirty abreast, white robed unmasked (to conform to a local ordinance), with white peaked hats, white cords around their waists, arms folded, the marchers followed rank on rank. Here and there was color-an imperial robe of crimson or scarlet or green. Everywhere floated American flags. The entire District of Columbia contingent (of about 100) carried each a large flag, gift from the Texas Klans. Other banners showed a masked horseman, a little red schoolhouse, the legend "Non Silbla sed Anthar (Klansmen smirk when asked to translate this; it is not Latin), and the legend...
...action followed the mobbing he received the week before at Palermo, his home town in Sicily, at the rough hands of the local Fascisti (TIME, Aug. 10). In his letter to the President of the Chamber, Signor Orlando charged that his party (Liberal) had been unfairly defeated in the municipal elections,* declared that there was now no longer a place for a man of his record and political beliefs...