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...read a memorial plaque, solemnly unveiled last week at ominous Serajevo. The letters of pure gold are deeply sunk in green marble. Pensively upon the stone broods the image of a frail young man. He proclaimed liberty by foully assassinating the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary. But the World War which followed did liberate Serajevo from Austrian rule. Therefore to his people a foul assassin is a Hero (TIME...
...second half, while Harvard seemed to sleep. A 20 point lead was reached. Near the end Baskerville and Wenner made a few spurts and the Crimson seemed to get on its feet, but Holy Cross was already stallnig. The end was fast, with the Purple seconds in, and Basky sunk a last desperate goal as the gun roared...
...stop him from sailing for the conference on the S. S. Bremen, world's fastest liner. "Tomorrow I lunch at the Embassy with Mr. Dawes," radioed Clown Rogers on reaching London. Another Rogersgram: "The American delegation arrived this afternoon and went into conference at the American bar and sunk a fleet of schooners without warning...
...Park, famed socialite U. S. Vice Consul at Biarritz, was being shaved by the ship's barber. Only the barber's steady hand saved him from instant decapitation. As it was, his consular lip was badly gashed. When the storm subsided, the reported sea toll read : 16 ships sunk, 32 beached, 8 abandoned...
Overthrown 19 days previously as Prime Minister, M. Briand had elected to come into the Tardieu Cabinet in his favorite role of Foreign Minister. Slowly, ponderously he mounted the Tribune last week, big shaggy head sunk theatrically between hunched shoulders. In low-spoken, vibrant words, he began: "Messieurs, the foreign policy of France continues. It remains a policy of dignity and firmness. I have never felt that the moral grandeur of France has suffered from what I have done...