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...Hanson incident is indicative of the manner in which the State Department serves pur country's interests, that is by pending one of its most able men to a place where he's not needed, then it would appear that the time was ripe for our Chief Executive to use a vacuum cleaner on said Department...
With Britain showing the cleanest possible diplomatic hands this week, with Standard Oil the butt of slashing attacks by New Deal newspapers, and with Ethiopia's Emperor soured on the U. S., alert London financiers called conditions ripe for Promoter Rickett to obtain his vast concession afresh for British interests if Standard Oil really does not want...
...Selassie's granduncle, the potent Emperor Menelik, many chiefs questioned his authority and seemed willing Italian allies. Early in the summer of 1895 Premier Crispi had called the new Governor of Eritrea, General Baratieri, back to Italy for a conference. Between them they decided that the time was ripe for a major move. General Baratieri, an impulsive Latin, seemed satisfied that the 15,000 native and Italian troops under his command were sufficient. He did not know that during his absence in Italy Emperor Menelik had made peace with the chieftains, bought from French munitions makers field guns that...
Artist Willard died at his home in Cleveland, Ohio 17 years ago at the ripe old age of 81. Though in his long lifetime he produced many such historical illustrations, none attracted the national attention of The Spirit of '76, his most important effort. It was the sensation of the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876. None admired it more than that descendant of a long line of Marbleheaders, General John Henry Devereux of Civil War fame, who bought and presented it to Marblehead. His interest in the picture sprang in no small measure from the fact that his small...
...Rose and other volumes is one of the coolest and sweetest tempered areas in U. S. letters, a gracious, rainless land in which the people all seem to be kin, where liquor and food are always excellent, and where oblique, unconsciously-poetic remarks can be plucked like ripe figs from the most casual conversation. Although the inhabitants of Stark Young's South seem to grow animated only when they discuss family history, they are distinguished by their even tempers and their love for their own quiet sections of the temperate zone. They may suffer like gentlefolk from post-Civil...