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...President received: Sidney I. Rothschild, President of the Wholesale Hatters' Association; C. Ogden Chrisholm, International Prison Commissioner; a delegation of bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal Church; a "delegation from the Association of Masters, Mates and Pilots. ¶ The President let it be known that he would not approve of extending the coastwise shippings laws to the Philippines on the ground that it would bring restrictions on shipping similar to those inflicted by Great Britain on American colonies before the Revolution. ¶The socal whirl became more dervish-like. The President and Mrs. Coolidge attended a dinner given...
...enough other Americans to make up 2,086,764 signed a petition 23 miles long to be sent to the German Government. The German Government after reading the petition will, according to the hopes of 2,086,764 Americans, release Lieutenant Corliss Hooven Griffis, who is in a German prison camp for attempting to kidnap Grover Cleveland Bergdoll notorious for escaping the draft...
...class." He does not appear to have sponsored Marxism for any personal grievance and was, according to himself, slow to embrace it at all. It is true that beginning with Jan. 18, 1898, he served various terms of imprisonment amounting in all to ten years. "It was in prison that I finally became converted to the theory of Marx." He was a Social Democrat. After the Brussels Conference of 1903, when the Socialist Convention split to become known as Bolshevik* and Menshevik Parties, he joined the Mensheviki. "As soon as Menshevism began to assume the character of a tactical movement...
...Lullaby. Husband commits murder and is himself killed in the act. Faithful wife takes part blame and is parked in state's prison. Baby daughter is adopted by State Governor and brought up respectable. Years pass. Mother comes out. Mother seeks baby daughter. Baby daughter is having coming out party at very gubernatorial mansion. Mother gets by the butlers. Governor persuades mother: "She must not know." Mother agrees and goes out on lawn to commit suicide. Daughter and fiance bring her around. Fiancé marries daughter anyway...
...only valuable contribution of the picture is the versatility of Jane Novak in the triple role of wife, old prison-poisoned mother, her own daughter...