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...industrial violence. Last November Democrat Thomas Courtney, a young two-fisted "reformer," beat State's Attorney Swanson for his job by a thumping majority. The Cook County Democratic machine was not overjoyed at its own man's victory; it feared he would "raise hell with the status quo." That was precisely what...
...session over, Democratic Senators and Representatives last week went racing to Postmaster Farley with demands for a hefty plumtree shaking. They had delivered their quid. It was now up to the Administration to produce its quo...
...forward throughout Europe. The whole continent is rapidly crystallizing into two groups: those in favor of, and those opposed to, revision of the treaties of Versailles. Especially rapid has been this solidification ever since Italy and England came out in favor of some kind of change in the status quo. France, whose whole foreign policy is based upon Security, and therefore the maintenance of the regulations of the Peace Treaties, immediately gathered her Continental Allies round her to fight revision...
Inside, tactful B. B. C. officials put Mr. Matsuoka in a broadcasting studio as far removed as possible from that occupied by China's spokesman of the evening. Ambassador Quo Taichi. Later, enclosed by a solid phalanx of Scotland Yard detectives, Japan's Matsuoka got safely away. "Because I am a Japanese," said he to U. S. correspondents, "I can sympathize deeply with the California earthquake sufferers. . . . Your economic crisis is largely psychological rather than material. I believe you will have a quick recovery...
Polish people resent such terminology for that section of Poland. Only German propagandists relish the use of the sarcastic term, "Polish Corridor." It is a disrespectful term, and in observance of the status quo of Pomorze, and for the sake of brevity, Pomorze for all TIME, please...