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Hearty newsvendor cheers burst forth as Lord Lee resumed his seat. Then as Mr. Houghton rose the assemblage stilled, mouse quiet. Perhaps words of moment to the Peace of the World were about to fall. Ponderously the American Ambassador drew a folded sheaf of papers from his breast pocket, smoothed them, cleared his throat, adjusted his tortoiseshells and began to read: ". . . seize with pleasure this occasion to express my profound respect for the British press . . . admirable tone, balance and sense . . . the American press partially superseded by the use of radio during our national campaign . . . auspicious occasion . . . heartfelt thanks...
When the cream and chocolate Golden Arrow Express glided out of Paris, one noontime last week, a certain smooth-shaven, starched-collared, quietly dressed U. S. passenger passed unnoticed among many another en route to London. As he worked rapidly through a neat sheaf of papers, the traveler looked much like other graduates of Rutgers, other Baptists, other natives of Bloomfield, N. J. His choice of viands at luncheon was to eschew a la carte dishes and accept the table d'hote offered. Fellow passengers continued unconscious that they were actually traveling on the same train with the Agent...
Picking up a sheaf of reports, Signor Mussolini then quietly settled down to quote evidence that Teutons are not being oppressed in the former Lower Tyrol, now called by Italians the Higher Adige. Declaring that 15 German language newspapers are still printed in the Higher Adige, Il Duce asked rhetorically: "Is this Fascist barbarity...
...humorous, dynamic statesman is Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. Last week he could suck his eternal plump cigar contentedly and even smugly over a sheaf of treasury reports. They showed that, with less than a month to go before the fiscal year ends on March 31, there is every prospect that the daring jugglery embodied in Mr. Churchill's present budget (TIME, April 18) will indeed enable him to make ends meet at his estimated total...
Last week the sheaf of statistics showed that, while an odd hundred million pounds must be received by the Exchequer during March 1928 to balance its books, a practically equivalent sum was received in March 1927 and can be conservatively counted on this year...