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...country behind him in a time and on an issue of utmost importance. The White House secretariat had showed and described this evidence to the Press-a real, continuous flood of telegrams, telephone calls and letters cheering for the President's message to Congress the day before, a sudden, sharp message calling for protection of the nation's credit...
...sudden landslide from the rain-soaked, earthen cliffs that tower above the Rhone had sent a heaving mass of mud hurtling down Caliure Hill where it burst like a tidal wave upon two apartment houses, shattering and engulfing them, ripping open water mains which spouted and gas mains which promptly burst into flame. A little further down the very street on which the two apartment houses had stood is the comfortable bourgeois home of Edouard Herriot, for 25 years Mayor of Lyon, Leader of the Radical-Socialist Party, outstanding French statesman of the Left Centre, and therefore apparently destined...
...pinny, almost illegible little notes he had made. He did not sense the applause which came afterwards until one of the soloists, a Fraulein Caroline Linger, turned him around so that his eyes could take it in. The music passed into the background then. The demonstration took a sudden, emotional turn as the people started shouting, beating their palms together still harder in an effort to assure the fierce-looking little man of their sympathy, their appreciation...
...showering with eggs the exponents of the law. It looks childish to us, to say the least, and although the sentiments of the old lady appalled at the nature of American youth when "of such are Chicago gangsters"--is perhaps far fetched in the light of a very sudden spring day, still American youth must be in dire need of action or excitement or occupation or something if it can rouse itself to nothing better than an undisciplined orgy of useless pranks...
Tall, straight and spry when he made his budget speech fortnight ago, Chancellor Neville Chamberlain of the British Exchequer was sorely crippled by a sudden attack of lumbago last week. Slowly, painfully he limped into the Treasury for an important conference with Sir George Ernest May. the actuary who is chairman of Great Britain's important Import Duties Advisory Committee of three...