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With the Allied rejections in his pocket, Secretary Lansing put up a stern, uncompromising front when Germany's Ambassador Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff called at his office one day late in April 1916. A stenographer set down their conversation verbatim. Excerpts...
...only one major change in the "united front" bill. Because the amount involved was only some $10,000,000 and a great deal of bookkeeping would be required to refund it, the Committee proposed that veterans who had paid interest on their Bonus loans should be declared out of pocket. Veterans who had shirked their interest obligations would be permitted to keep the money. Thereupon the Committee reported the Bonus Bill out three days after receiving it. Four days the bill was passed by a thumping 356-to-59, biggest vote ever rolled up for the Bonus...
...triangle's points are true for either hemisphere. On such a Euclidean axiom James Hanley posits his latest diatribe, in novel form, against the race that calls itself human but shows itself English. Readers who fear the proletarian author even when he is writing about love can safely pocket their qualms: Author Hanley complains of nothing more subversive than the fact that stokers, too, have hearts and flea-bitten wenches can make them bleed...
...great Bronx Terminal Market. Foodhandlers, working under arc lights, stopped to stare and pound their frozen hands together, as out of the car emerged a small, swart Napoleonic figure wrapped in a greatcoat. The man mounted, with assistance, the tailboard of a truck, took a paper from his pocket. Two shivering policemen braced their shoulders, put bugles to their chapped lips, sounded assembly. Half way through the call one bugle gave a despairing wail, froze tight. Provision men came running from all sides to see the show. The man in the greatcoat began to read in an enormous voice from...
Since Louis XIV added it to the less innocent pleasures of his court, the pastime of billiards has had many offspring. Most impolite child is pool, which well-meaning persons have tried to dignify by calling it pocket billiards, publicizing it as a family game, rigging up modernistic equipment. Fortnight ago, when the world's championship opened on the Roof Garden of Manhattan's Hotel Pennsylvania, the players maneuvered stiffly in dinner jackets before a sparkling audience on tiers of blue & gold seats, longed vainly for spittoons and overhead counters. A preopening shot was more reminiscent...