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...Stalin" means "steel," a name bestowed by Lenin as an honorable nickname upon Joseph Dzhngashvili, now Joseph Stalin...
Joseph Stalin dictates at Moscow, having overthrown Leon Trotzky and many another. Recently M. Trotzky and other anti-Stalinites, notably MM. Zinoviev and Kamenev, have been rumored to be gathering strength for a war of propaganda against the man of steel.* Last week M. Stalin, no office holder but the despotic "boss" of the Communist party, rapped out three orders. Leon Trotzky and his malcontents were commanded to cease their opposition to the dictator's will. For an hour they temporized, then found courage for battle ebbing. Next day the supremacy of Joseph Stalin stood once more unquestioned...
...municipal steamer Macon and welcomed Queen Marie in the name of the city. Followed J. Butler Wright, Assistant Secretary of State, on a revenue cutter to extend the President's greetings. A third delegation of "personal friends of Queen Marie," likewise on the cutter, included Judge ("U. S. Steel") Gary and Samuel ("Sam") Hill of Seattle, Wash., potent railroader, who extended to Queen Marie the invitation to dedicate his Seattle museum, "Maryhill" which provides the technical reason for her visit to the U. S. Seventy minutes after she landed at the Battery, Queen Marie and her party left Manhattan...
...Sweden, where remarkably pure steel is made, the Swedish Steel & Iron Trust took form, a 127,000,000 kroner ($34,000,000) organization. No Swedish steel concern will henceforth compete with a compatriot organizer...
...destiny jumbled on a scale which D. W. Griffith would call a "spectacle." One Peter Ormerod, fresh from Harvard, a successful Manhattan lawyer, goes to California in 1855 in behalf of his client, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. Now Peter is often called "ugly" by his author, but he has steel in his biceps, adventure in his red corpuscles. In California where playboys dent the bars with their nuggets, he meets the "doctor- lawyer-journalist-soldier -states-man," William Walker, the original "manifest destiny" man, who believes that "America must round her territories by the sea," that he must help...