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...Senate since 1923 had gone seven similar messages from Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. Only once had the Senate responded favorably. That was in 1926 when it tacked on a string of reservations which took Elder Statesman Elihu Root years to get accepted by the other powers. But after 13 years the World Court was probably the deadest political issue in the land. That deadness was precisely what gave World Court advocates hope of getting the U. S. in the Court this time. Senators Hiram Johnson of California, William Edgar Borah of Idaho and a handful of other bitter-enders...
Following Hauptmann's 172 hours on the stand, Defense Counsel Edward J. Reilly began to set up the string of witnesses which, he had brashly promised, would clear his client. But as fast as he set them up, the State bowled them down. When Counsel Reilly's "50" witnesses turned out to be a bare dozen, he loudly cried "intimidation!" Prosecution officials replied that when they put their investigators on the trail of some characters scheduled to appear for Counsel Reilly, the would-be witnesses discreetly chose to "walk out" on the defense...
...wrought, eminently worthy. Like so many of his compatriots Sculptor Benson was a longtime resident of France. Left high by the receding dollar, he avoided Paris, ran a studio in the Maritime Alps, never copied Parisian sculptors. Last week he received guarded praise from New York's first-string critics...
...Barthou was pumped full of bullets before he could persuade the British Government to act without Germany. British diplomacy, harping away century after century upon the old string "Divide & Rule," does not readily accept a solution which would screw down everything too tight in Europe...
...Lionel railroad sells from $1 to $350. The more expensive models are complete with a red railroad station marked LIONELVILLE, a sponge rubber roadbed moulded to look like rock ballast, a thick steel tunnel through which speeds a locomotive, fire box aglow, pulling a string of Lionel Line coaches. Lionel Corp. still makes stem-wind locomotives, but President J. (for Joshua) Lionel Cowen, who gave his middle name to the company, was a pioneer in electrification. Onetime apprentice with Henner & Anderson, early makers of dry batteries, he spent his teens inventing a flashlight, finding new uses in surgical instruments...