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In 528 A. D., when Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee was condemned by King Arthur's Court to be burned at the stake, he saved his life by a Yankee trick. Knowing that a solar eclipse was imminent, he predicted the end of the world, got himself a...
>Out of 50 such "agents," 30 were said to have police records, one was a German who had been classed by a British court as a "friendly enemy alien," several were Russians and Poles.
The "new" Herbert Hoover, now the newsreeling chum & consort of sports columnists, stage stars, debutantes, had amassed $2,500,000 in hard U. S. cash for Finnish relief. With unselfish enthusiasm he reported that twelve other groups were in the field, collecting with equal avidity. Mr. Hoover made a dramatically...
These figures New York Timesman Eugen Kovacs gleaned at a station on the Rumanian-Soviet frontier. Cars loaded with maize, oil cakes, apples, eggs, butter, meat and lumber for Germany are systematically broken open and plundered while crossing Soviet territory. The Germans have to send German freight cars, though they...
Poles apart were such men as Mr. Hoover and Massachusetts' House GOPilot, Joe Martin. The Hoover theorists counseled never-say-die, no-retreat, hold-that-line, polished up their armor for The Day. The practical Martin men were busy bending before the storm, counseled silence, watchfulness, strategy.