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Meanwhile the Prince was being trailed around Budapest by a file of cars a block long. Finally someone had the bright idea of telling him about Gellert's bath for men only. Edward posted to Gellert's as fast as he could, stripped, had a hot soak. Word spread quickly and all Budapest society flocked to the hotel café. But H. R. H. was satisfied where he was. When tea time came, he too had tea brought into the men's bath, like the morose old Magyars staring at him dully through the mist...
Washington, Dec. 17--The administration is determined to prevent any "soak-the-rich" movement in the 74th Congress from reaching the point where it will cause another stampede by business and industry away from the New Deal, it was learned tonight...
...Japan not only the fighting services, but also the Emperor, the peasants and the proletariat are out to soak the bourgeois rich. Before the soaking begins this week, the Diet was edified by a discourse from ingenious Mr. Koki Hirota. A stone-cutter's son, he once tried to get a job in the household of Captain John Joseph Pershing, then U. .S. military attache in Tokyo, who turned him down because "his English is so poor." Today Koki Hirota is Foreign Minister. "Please tell General Pershing," said he not long ago to Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew, "that Hirota...
...Roosevelt wants him to do. Yet when he was putting his ideas into the Congressional record nearly two years ago, he declared: "Such measures as I have proposed may frighten those who possess wealth. How ever, they should feel reassured that it is to save the rich and not soak them...
...motors will drive 400,000 cu. ft. of dried air, chilled to 35°, down the shaft every minute. It is expected that temperature will be reduced 8 to 12° in the main shaft, 5 to 7° in the branch workings, and the dry air will soak up 1,500 gal. of water every hour. Initial cost...