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...them Republicans), one-third in favor of the bill, one-third still on the fence. The Democrats who had declared themselves divided about 2-to-1 in favor of his plan. If by putting on pressure he could get the gentlemen on the fence (most of them Democrats) to split in the same proportion, victory in the Senate was certain...
...Mary's deaths. He thinks that Franz Joseph infuriated Rudolph by ordering his separation from Mary when Rudolph wanted to leave the corrupt court and marry her. He guesses that Rudolph was approached by Hungarian separatists at this critical time and accepted a proposal that he split off Vienna from Budapest and rule at least one half of the Kingdom decently. When his revolt starts and the guns begin to crack, however, Rudolph realizes that all governments are alike, that rulers must kill to rule and that every state is run by an inner ring for profit...
...Oldster Pauline Frederick as Empress Elizabeth and Oldster Dudley Digges as Franz Joseph went full critical praise and a welcome back to the stage from the films. Henry Hull and Margo, the lovers at Mayerling, split honors with Playwright Anderson for an historical episode bursting with strength and bravery, so true that it should have happened even...
...even such a hair-breadth distinction as this was not too small to be split by the hawk-eye wielder of the hammer at the Maintenance building. About a week age a brand new feel-proof device appeared at tached to the door. A package could get in, but an arm couldn...
...final piece of false reasoning in the President's mind is his assumption that a body of fifteen can work as efficiently as a group of nine. Since the court cannot be split into two sessions,--else there would be no supreme court at all,--fifteen judges will have to sit at once, in effect making a minor deliberative body like a third branch of Congress, rather than a court of law. Thus, unless the present executive heat persuades the present elder justices that it's time to retire, the speed at which the court can perform will be retarded...