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Since Germany is the only land from which the British public have even the remotest fear of immediate attack, the White Paper referred to Deutschland at some length: "The British Government have noted and welcomed the declarations of leaders in Germany that they desire peace. We cannot, however, fail to recognize that not only their forces, but the spirit in which the population, especially the youth, of their, country are being organized lend color to and substantiate the general feeling which has already been incontestably generated. . . . [German] rearmament, if continued at the present rate, unabated and uncontrolled, will aggravate...
...expected to thumb This Week's pages, practically none will have the remotest idea whose show it is. Even if they knew the man's name- Joseph Palmer Knapp-it would mean little or nothing to them: just as it means nothing to the 8,250,000 readers of Collier's, American Magazine, Woman's Home...
...next month, Democrat Byrns began to expand, to think of himself as already belonging to the immortal company of great Speakers. To an old acquaintance who called him "Mr. Byrns," he said, "Call me Joe? or Uncle Joe. I don't like that 'Mister'." Washington chuckled, seeing only the remotest similarity between him and that other "Uncle Joe" Cannon, the late great Speaker (TIME, March 3, 1923). Wags suggested that to distinguish the two it would be best to call Speaker-Apparent Byrns. "Old White...
...Massachusetts there are two branches of the Coolidge family which claim only the remotest kin. The more plebeian branch produced the 30th President of the U. S. The new Undersecretary of the Treasury stems from the more aristocratic...
...damaging direct quotation that Dr. Wirt could recall came from Miss Kneeland, Department of Agriculture subordinate: "Our group takes the leadership and recognizes the leadership of Dr. Tugwell [Assistant Secretary of Agriculture]." The Kerensky-Roosevelt analogy, according to Dr. Wirt, was made by Mr. Todd, who never had the remotest connection with the U. S. Government. Mr. Todd vehemently denied making the statement, or even one like...