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...Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili. Because his inflexible will is like tempered metal, the great Lenin called him "Stalin." meaning "Steel." When the eleventh Red Birthday was celebrated. Comrade Citizens rejoiced, gamboled and swigged vodka*-but Stalin remained as usual coldly, inscrutably by his own fireside, never addressing the mob by radio, never overwhelmed with public adulation, never interviewed, scarcely recognized on his infrequent rides about Moscow in a closely guarded limousine...
...sooty raven of hard luck creaked again, last week, at poor Edouard Herriot. His toboggan from power has been likened to that of David Lloyd George. Both men are time servers, gambling on the turn of the mob. The undoing of M. Herriot began when he dared to duel politically for the Prime Ministry of France (TIME, July 26, 1926), with wily Aristide Briand, who has held that office nine times. When Briand and the mob were done with Edouard Herriot he had been turned out of the Prime Ministry, after an incumbency of two days, and skinned...
Busses Take Mob to Boston...
...trifled with. Their citizenship, mostly newborn, surged within them. Their patriotism, not unmixed with less grandiose emotions common to young-manhood everywhere in football season, mounted to heights that made police reserves from Trenton seem necessary to the peace of Princeton. False fire alarms were sent in. A student mob of riotous proportions assembled. Party banners were torn down and up. A passing motor bus and all its passengers received a thoroughgoing shake on Nassau street. Dean Mauss strode out to quiet his charges. They ignored him and roistered long and late...
...drew it themselves slowly down the Avenida de Mayo to Government House. Then Dr. Irigoyen beamed with pleasure at the plaudits and waved high & wide his hat. Last week, confident of his power and surfeited with adulation, he sped down the Avenida in his limousine, so briskly that the mob had scarcely time to see or cheer...