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...Prince is said to have examined with particular care a roulette wheel, seized at a London gambling resort, which could be controlled at will by the croupier...
...arts, to the cubic minute, than any paper I know, and give it in a form that I remember. You are to me like a keen, voluble neighbor with a gift for gathering gossip, but-with scarcely a vestige of breeding! After a dose of TIME I generally resort to the Manchester Weekly Guardian to counteract the effect. Those Guardian fellows are humorous and keen and . . . gentlemen...
Last week, however, despatches from San Remo, famed Riviera resort, described Mohammed VI, once both Sultan and Caliph, as no longer able to command the state and retinue which he has maintained until very recently. Gifts and contributions from wealthy Turkish sympathizers still enable him to keep up a modest villa, but it is alleged that a few weeks ago he was nearly evicted for nonpayment of rent, and it is said that he has been obliged to dispense with even the German governess who formerly attended his youngest...
...strike or lockout . . . would have learned more from the Great War. . . . In home affairs the speeches of too many leaders smack of the sword and battle axe. . . . Differences there must be . . . but I have yet to be convinced that they are not capable of resolution by reason and without resort to force...
...lump sum or in installments over 14 years.† A detailed and extensive sketch envisioned the proposed Sinking Fund as functioning separately from the regular fiscal machinery of the Government; and a clause was inserted to the effect that its administrators or the Finance Minister should be permitted to resort to a limited inflation of the French currency in case of emergency...