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Governor Lippert's speech last week was believed to have been made at the instance of German Minister of Economics Dr. Hjalmar Schacht. Appealing to what he called "America's sober business sense," Guest Lippert said that U. S. citizens who boycott German goods do so "from wholly false assumptions." Calling the boycott "contrary to all American interests," he threatened German retaliation against U. S. exports, menacingly concluded: "One can do business only with good friends; with bad friends business is always...
...hard going. The thugs and strong-arm men he could not control gave Skagway such a bad name that the law-&-order element grew restive. Finally, when a green prospector was robbed in Soapy's own saloon, the storm gathered. A meeting of sober citizens was called. When Soapy, singlehanded, went down to remonstrate with them, his speech was cut short by a bullet...
...Shanghai, Chefoo, Dairen, Newchwang, Tientsin, Swatow, Chungking, Foochow he had already made himself one of the Far East's best-known diplomats. It had been 13 years since he left his native Bridgeport, Conn, as a Cornell engineering graduate. In that time he had learned to stay sober while gulping vast quantities of vodka, stay suave while sipping small quantities of tea, tell jokes in Russian and 15 Chinese dialects, outplay Chinese generals at poker and politics, pen dispatches which his State Department superiors found masterpieces of industry and insight...
...sober, and unfortunately someone sometime must be, "The Drunkard", as here produced, can be an annoying bore. In recreating the music hall atmosphere, the Copley seems to have scoured the streets for all those people whose stock-in-trade is "You said it, sport", and placed them in the balcony. The audience thus takes the cast by storm, its superb banalities so drowning speech on the stage as to make the play seem a pantomine. Too bad, for I recall in a previous performance that the lines of the play were pearls of wit, and trite not at all. This...
This sounded as if most of Mexico's Catholic population were in danger of being excommunicated but in fact no Mexican was last week excommunicated and avoided. To any such high threat of absolute wrath, the Church adds a sober, realistic rider. Last week Archbishop Diaz pardoned in advance Government employes who keep their jobs because they cannot find other work, parents who send their children to proscribed schools because the truant officer forces them to. The Church wants loyal Catholics but even more it wants live Catholics...