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...last week did both armies in the great Battle of the Referendum claim the support of grizzled old Hero President Paul von Hindenburg. Hugenberg followers quoted the President's famed speech "protesting the War guilt lie" at the anniversary of the Battle of Tannenberg in 1927, as proof that he sympathized with them. Anti-referendumists quoted von Hindenburg's thanks to Foreign Minister Stresemann on his return from The Hague Parley (TIME, Aug. 19) as his personal endorsement of the Young Plan. Irate and august, President von Hindenburg reasserted his neutrality: "I declare herewith that I have given...
...quick. Pedley was stretched flat before any of the spectators realized it. It was all the more remarkable because Doolittle was boxing out of his class in weight-a light heavyweight in the heavyweight group. The incident, which is local legend hereabouts, and much retold, was an early proof of the quick-thinking faculty Doolittle has so often exhibited in flying. A friend of mine who saw him "sail out" at Cleveland says that many a pilot near the hangars said "Even if he is a caterpillar, he's still the greatest in the air." The hearsay evidence...
...after all, values, in a human life," he continued. "You cannot mark them off from other human values, as though the nature of man were built in bulkheads; as though there were a department of poetry hermetically sealed, a kind of padded room of aesthetic so effectively sound proof that the ravings of poesy are unable to disturb either the moral sense in us or the instinct for truth...
...athletics in line with the written and unwritten principles of the amateur spirit. The fact that it was the officials of the H. A. A. who were responsible for bringing to the attention of the investigators the one feature of their policy which failed to pass musier is ample proof of the eagerness of these men to put Harvard athletics in the cleanest possible condition...
...boat capsize in Casco Bay, a man floundering in the water, he dived in, rescued one George E. Rice of Manhattan. Thereafter, Rice and Pye were fast friends, correspondents. Forty-five years passed. Rice became a wealthy soap manufacturer. Several months ago he died. As proof of his repeated statement that he "never would forget the act" of Pye, he willed him his entire estate...