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...Citizens of the U. S. favorable to the League of Nations recalled a statement of Sir Austen Chamberlain that the special Court conference is a mere common sense measure designed to get swift action upon the U. S. Senate's reservations by the nations already adherent to the World Court...
...doctor took a pair of forceps in his hand. That hand must not tremble. It must pull the needle straight out in one swift motion. The forceps must not grope for its grip on the needle end. The screech of slipping steel would sound the tiny patient's death. He must not jiggle the needle, else its embedded tip would tear the thin cells of the brain and kill the patient. With micrometer precision he gripped with the forceps the needle end. With ramrod straightness he pulled. The needle came out. Except for a little clot of blood...
...revelations of people, beheld in their reactions to McDougall or his cartoons of them. J. P. Morgan Sr. was small-minded about his big nose; Rudyard Kipling, rude; Tom Nast, vain and petty; Mark Twain, grumpily grudging; Thomas Wanamaker, "a nasty little commercial person"; Woodrow Wilson, "a sort of swift floor-walker's smirk"; Joseph Pulitzer, a social climber, ingenious blasphemer ? for instance, the epithet, "too inde-god-dam-pendent...
...February after the armistice, prudent General Knisgern started canceling his war contracts; told Swift & Co., one of his main supply agents, to cease preparing Army bacon. But they had about five million pounds of pig bellies in smoke, could not easily dispose of them to the civilian trade. The selling price would have been considerably below the Government contract rate, at which Swift & Co. had keyed their packing operations. The General realized Swift's fairness and willing co-operation throughout the War stress, yet had to refer money adjustment to a Court of Claims; told the company to sell...
...Swift & Co. filed routine suit against the Government in the Court of Claims. There Government agents astounded them by charging fraudulent conduct. Yet the Court decided in favor of the packers. Government appeal went to the U. S. Supreme Court, and over that Court's decision the five brothers of Swift & Co. were happy last week, for the final decision awarded them not only the more than million dollars differential on War bacon sales in the U. S., but also $212,216 more for a potential loss on bacon sold in France...