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...main speech of Herr Marx was at Berlin and was characterized by a total lack of personal criticism aimed at Von Hindenburg. The chief point in his speech was the nailing of the Austrian Union plank to the Republican platform. The union of Germany and Austria has for 100 years been the dream of German Imperialists and, with Austria allegedly no longer able to subsist in its present shadow of its former self, the dream has come within an ace of reality. The main obstacle is Czecho-Slovakia, although there is considerable, but not insuperable, opinion against the move...
...favor of a comical sketch. According to the report of J. T. Wheel-wright, who has left an account of this first performance, it was indeed an impromptu affair. The date picked was Friday the thirteenth and 11 Hollis Hall was converted into the stage. A large plank, slightly longer than the room, was bowed so as to serve for the footlights, boots were made of blackened cardboard, wigs and dresses were borrowed from the "goodies", and all was in readiness for the opening night before an audience consisting of the thirty members of the club...
British Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain pulled a string, the string released a weight, the weight hit a plank, the plank moved a rod, the rod tipped a latchet, the latchet released a spring, the spring opened a door and a ball began to roll...
...Plank. In a speech in the House of Commons, Mr. Chamberlain outlined the attitude of the British Government to the German proposals. Summed up, the British Government regarded them as the beginnings of a political settlement on the Continent, as a substitution of a peace imposed by victors for a peace of amity and understanding...
...Union League Club, founded in 1863 on the plank of "uncompromising and unconditional loyalty to the Nation," regardless of party?a club which has since grown into a great Republican stronghold, numbering among its presidents Joseph H. Choate, Hamilton Fish, Chauncey M. Depew, Elihu Root, Charles E. Hughes, Henry P. Davison, James R. Sheffield (now Ambassador to Mexico) ?a birthday celebration was held. It was in honor of the forth coming 80th anniversary of the birth of Elihu Root...