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...them also, he has had his fair share of shouting supporters. Last week in the House New York's fire-eating little Representative Loring Black voiced the extreme Democratic view when he declared: "The outstanding accomplishment of this Administration was a successful assault on Webster's dictionary. ... As Lincoln split rails, Hoover split hairs. . . . He would make mad faces at Congress and then send [Secretary] Walter Newton over to say he didn't mean it. ... He compromised everything, the country, Congress, his party and himself. For a while the people thought the seat of Government was at St. Elizabeth...
...hatchet last week split the skull...
...allowing a constitutional Cortes (Parliament) to be elected "as if nothing had happened"-i.e. as if the constitution had not been virtually suspended and the Cortes totally suppressed since 1923. Suddenly last week King Alfonso appeared to realize that the Monarchist parties in Spain were hopelessly split among themselves and afforded no leader who could keep the new Cortes subservient to the Crown. Promptly His Majesty called off the elections he had ordered, called upon Prime Minister Damaso Berenguer (who was still in bed with eczema of the foot) and obtained the cabinet's resignation. Then began the frantic...
Lawyers who "chase ambulances" are not respected in their profession. Their object, of course, is to aid or persuade the injured to bring suit-and split the damages. Ethically, such lawyers are comparable to doctors who would hang around at a bad corner waiting for auto crashes to bring them trade...
...pierced the vessel's pilot house. She hove to. Running alongside, Mate Schmidt found she was the Josephine K. out of Digby, Nova Scotia with 500 cases of liquor aboard. Unconscious in the cabin lay her captain, William P. Cluett, smashed by the Coast Guard shell, which had split the ship's wheel. Capt. Cluett was taken ashore where he died without regaining consciousness...