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...Windus looked high, low and carefully for a worthy successor, finally hit upon Author Stephen Hudson (A True Story). Hudson's version did not satisfy U. S. Publishers Boni, who chose Frederick A. Blossom, Ph. D., ex-professor at Johns Hopkins, to make the U. S. translation ?careful, sober, with occasional Ph. D. irruptions into footnotes...
Without division the sober Senators of the Irish Free State passed a resolution last week asking thin-necked President Eamon de Valera. of whom they do not approve, to negotiate with Great Britain to settle Ireland's most urgent problem immediately: Whether the Free State is to cease remitting annuities to the British Government for estates of British and Irish landlords divided and sold on the installment plan to Irish tenants. The Senators might as well have saved their breath. President de Valera pushed a ?2,000,000 emergency appropriation through the Dail for the establishment of new industries...
...Even sober WTalter Lippmann of the New York Herald Tribune, whose Publisher Ogden Reid & wife were to be seen in the Press stand, was tickled by Keynoter Dickinson: "The historians admit," wrote he, "that even Abraham Lincoln made a few mistakes, but if the Senator's story is to be believed Herbert Hoover has been invincibly right from start to> finish. Such infallibility has not been known on earth, and when Mr. Hoover has his speech called to his attention by one of his secretaries he will feel either that the speech is nonsense or that the office of President...
...house of his own, a car, two little daughters. Eighteen months ago he lost his job. His small savings melted. He led the B. E. F.'s first contingent of 300 from Portland across the continent last month. Now in command of 15,000 men, he became the sober, strict executive with headquarters and a staff in a deserted building on Pennsylvania Avenue. He directed the B. E. F.'s lobbyists, organized newcomers, arranged for food and shelter, maintained camp order and, above all, kept the Bonus uppermost in his followers' minds. Said...
...Sober German citizens had had an all too graphic picture of the parliamentary proceedings of both of Germany's extreme parties in action. Chancellor Brüning was not unduly alarmed. Next day was Corpus Christi. He marched in the religious procession (first in Berlin since the War) to the Cathedral of St. Hedwig. Strengthened by this, he buttonholed President von Hindenburg for four hours and 45 minutes three days later, tried to persuade his old patron not to admit the Fascists to a share in the Government until after the Lausanne conference in June. Meanwhile, the Chancellor planned...