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Last week the man who is Congressman-Hamilton Fish Jr., born 1888-talked in terms of generations: "When this country reaches a population of two hundred or two hundred and fifty million people . . . some overt act of Mexico will force us to go down there. If it does, I hope we will go to stay and bring two or three million Americans down there to bring law and order to that Godforsaken country...
...Balkan crises lead to threats, overt acts, wars. During the past month a once healthy-looming crisis blew up, blew over, scarcely titillated the news cables of the world. Bulgarian comitadjis, "irregulars" (near-bandits), staged an impromptu raid across the Jugoslav frontier. Soon a collective note ("ultimatum") was despatched by Jugoslavia, Rumania and Greece demanding that Bulgaria disband and disperse her comitadjis. Though these highly irregular gentry are not easily to be disbanded-even by the government to which they owe nominal allegiance-the Bulgarian Foreign Office drafted and despatched a sufficiently conciliatory reply to Jugoslavia, Rumania and Greece last...
...Dwight Whitney Morrow, Morgan partner. Mr. Morrow is also an old friend (Amherst classmate) of Calvin Coolidge-was, perhaps, Mr. Coolidge's best friend among the great, before he became President. But, so far, Mr. Morrow has had no overt connection with the Administration, except to tackle the thankless thorny job of aviation investigation. And his influence upon Mr. Coolidge's appointments has been conspicuously negligible-much too negligible in many people's opinion...
...accept the seat in the Senate which he now occupies. People say he is "too independent." Yet the very loftiness of his character and unimpeachability of his motives make him of first importance as a leader of antiprohibitionists. But not all the blows last week were oratorically delivered. Overt acts: In Rhode Island, the House of Representatives passed a resolution requesting the Senators and Representatives of Rhode Island in the U. S. Congress to submit the question to a national referendum. In Wisconsin, the Butter Makers Association launched a campaign to line up all dairymen on the dry side...
...this point the football coach came upon the scene. He is the only overt independent on the city council. He is William Roper, head coach of the Princeton eleven, inciter of great deeds on the gridiron, exhorter of youth in wholesome sport. He exclaimed in council meeting...