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...Congress adjourns, Britain's Parliament is prorogued. When Congress' work is done, Congress can adjourn in five minutes. Proroguing Parliament is a lengthy and a solemn business. Last week putting an end to the 13-month session of Parliament (longest since the War) Lieut. General Sir William Pulteney, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, in black velvet, with lace on his cuffs and a sword at his side, walked from the House of Lords down the corridor to the House of Commons where the door was ceremoniously slammed in his face. Knocking three times with his Rod, he entered...
Selected to replace Mr. Huston as party chairman, at least temporarily, was smallish, solemn, fuss-budgety Senator Simeon Davison Fess of Ohio, who cancelled steamship bookings for a European holiday to take over his new political duties. In imitation of the present Democratic setup, in which National Chairman Raskob yields the spotlight to Executive Committee Chairman Jouett Shouse, the Republicans decided to have, in addition to their party chief, an active committee manager to do the real political work. For this new professional post, with $15,000 salary, Robert H. Lucas, now Commissioner of Internal Revenue in the Treasury Department...
...long, so dishearteningly. A few miles further on, at Gräfenbacher-hütte, he stopped again, descended with his middle-aged son and adjutant, Lieut.-Colonel Oscar von Hindenburg, at a little cottage. Here during the War, to be near the campaigning Feldmarschall, lived the late Frau von Hindenburg. Solemn in stiff bowler hats the two von Hindenburgs gazed on a wife's, on a mother's Wartime home...
...their heels went a "solemn warning" to the U. S. by Pope Pius XL: ". . . Beware lest Bolshevism spread in America at this moment of financial depression and unemployment...
Another Mickey Mouse fan is Ireland's venerable sage "AE" (George Russell), who once gravely reviewed these hilarious animated cartoons in his august (now defunct) review The Irish Statesman. In Berlin last week a solemn German censor sat down to view that grand old strip of celluloid Mickey Mouse in the Trenches. Afterward, still owl-solemn, he ruled as follows: "The wearing of German military helmets by an army of cats which oppose a militia of mice is offensive to national dignity. Permission to exhibit this production in Germany is refused...