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...nearly sundown before Washington was reached and Pennsylvania Avenue was filled from end to end with this citizen army. His spurs clinked loudly as General Butler strode into President Roosevelt's study. "Mr. President," barked the general, "I have 500,000 men outside who want peace but want something more. I wish you to remove Cordell Hull as Secretary of State...
Nearly 100,000 peasants brought up the procession's rear in such native costumes as few countries besides Jugoslavia can produce. Her peasants of Turkish blood still wear the fez now banned in Turkey. With them strode Bosnians in scarlet dress and Herzegovinian mountaineers carrying their rifles upside down in mourning. Montenegro sent her Jugoslavian Cossacks...
...people gathered in vast Convention Hall for a mission rally. Dr. Lewis B. Franklin, treasurer of the Church's National Council, was about to announce results of a ''Thank Offering" collected among the women when suddenly a plain churchman whom few recognized leaped up, strode to a microphone before the high altar. As Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry looked on with amazement from his throne, Rev. Cornelius Polhemus Trowbridge of Salem, Mass, cried: "I am not Franklin, but I am a minister of Christ. I have the permission of the Bishop of New Jersey to make...
...unaware or heedless that his Church is in close sympathy with the Orthodox communion, and that in the front row of his audience sat a distinguished convention guest-Rev. Sergius Bulgakov, dean of the Russian Orthodox Seminary in Paris. His eyes blazing and his long beard flying. Professor Bulgakov strode up to the chairman on the platform, exclaimed: "You have sinned against God in permitting that man to speak!" Next day New Jersey's Bishop Matthews, as host to General Convention, made public apology: "It grieves me to the heart that an unofficial spokesman for this church should have...
...long time it has been since any U. S. steelmaster strode to a rostrum, thrust out his chin and in so many words predicted a more glowing future for the industry than anything in its molten past. Last week's steel production, 23% of capacity, was nothing to make steelmen loquacious. But in Manhattan the learned American Society for Metals heard from the lips of Tom Mercer Girdler, steelmen's steelman and president-chairman of Republic Steel Corp., these words...