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...last week the attitude of the arriving Briton was more like that of rich and alert Lady Rhondda who, arriving on the Aquitania, said: "The threat of war is so near and so constant and so inescapable that all England feels it. It is not something remote, as war in Europe must seem to you over here. It is right in her homes. I haven't got my gas mask yet-I'm not sure that I wouldn't rather be gassed right off and have it over with. But you cannot feel comfortable when you know...
Last week Lady Rhondda went on: "In England we have stopped completely talking about the abdication of King Edward. After all it affected only one Englishman directly. That is why England took the abdication right in stride and passed over to the more important thing-the threat against the lives of every one of us over there...
...report of the committee on the "increasing number of governmental bureaus and boards." Declaimed Delaware Delegate James R. Morford: "We must guard in any proposed alteration of our inefficient political bureaucracy against the very real dangers which inhere in a non-political and efficient bureaucracy. One permanent threat to liberty is involved in the future development of civil service...
...maid. Photographers had to be content with his physical description given by apartment attendants: medium height, stocky, mustached. Out of sight though he kept himself, the "Jersey Zaharoff" was nevertheless well represented in print by statements handed out during the week at his office. To Roosevelt's threat of new legislation, Mr. Cuse had these firm and practical last words: "Whatever new laws may be passed in the future, the fact remains that my company has purchased commercial airplanes for shipment to a country with which we are not at war, on the strength of and in compliance with...
When the Daugherty threat grew serious the embattled Ochsner wives formed a united front, agreed among themselves on an intramural settlement. Wife No. i, anxious to see that her husband's children were taken care of even if they were not her own, was satisfied with 10% the family's share. Wife No. 2 took with another 20% each for her two children. Wife No. 3 got 25% with another 20% for her child. Though several suits are still pending by outsiders, San Francisco's Judge Frank H. Dunne last week decided that it was high time...