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First was to Senator Robert M. LaFollette of Wisconsin who had invited him to a Progressive conference in Chicago: "In this campaign we must choose between President Roosevelt or Governor Landon. . . . For the liberals to split their votes is merely to play into the hands of the Wall Street gang. I have the utmost respect for the Union ticket candidate [z. e., William Lemke] and for Father Coughlin, whose program of monetary reform is sound. . . . However, I think the defeat of Landon is of the utmost importance to the great masses of America. . . ." Second telegram was to Franklin Roosevelt...
...Lenin's friend and is Trotsky's brother-in-law, interrupted Prisoner Kamenev with the simple question: "Were you a bloodthirsty enemy of the Government?" Replied Kamenev readily: "Yes, I was." Kamenev and Zinoviev, although confessing by the yard to the greatest crimes possible in Russia, split hairs and quarreled violently before the Court over such fine points as whether Kamenev had "meant" to write an article such as Zinoviev actually wrote for Soviet newsorgans excoriating the assassins of Kirov...
Another fugitive, the French holder of the Chair of Jurisprudence at Barcelona Uni-versity for the past 15 years, returned to the University of Paris declaring that Barcelona was split into four hostile factions. "The hordes now in charge in Catalonia," he said, "resamble sewer rats come up for air, and I fear it is going to be difficult to get them down into the sewers again, whatever happens. Thousands of convicts liberated from prison roam the streets and some of them have been made 'officials.' In the midst of all this the, authorities are devoting plenty...
...Private Aid?" In perfect agony at Paris all week was new Premier Blum, as French politics split wide open into factions, respectively, for the Spanish Government and for the Spanish Revolution...
That statement split Commissioner Carpenter and Pacific Mutual's old management. Promptly to bat went four officers and directors of old Pacific Mutual, including 73-year-old George Ira Cochran, president of the company for 30 years until last autumn when he was moved to the chairman's seat to make room for President Kemp. In a complaint to set aside the reorganization, they accused Commissioner Carpenter of inexperience, charged that he had sprung the reorganization on them without due warning. Next move of Commissioner Carpenter was to file a $511,650 suit for misuse of Pacific Mutual...