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Next day Minnesota's Farmer-Laborite Governor Floyd Bjornstjerne Olson moved the besieged non-unionists out under police guard, shut down the Flour City plant under threat of martial...
...polite obituaries over, speculations as to just how big a hole the late Senator had left in the nation's political life were in order. His death had certainly put an end to any radical independent Democratic threat to split the party in 1936.** His Louisiana followers had enough to keep them busy at home. Governor Floyd Olson of Minnesota is going to test his radicalism by opposing Senator Thomas D. Schall for his seat. Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia, whose abuse of President Roosevelt and the New Deal has been second only to that of the Kingfish, has Long...
With the most serious foreign threat since an Argentine team won the tournament in 1931 thus neatly disposed of, the Open promptly became what it usually is, the climax of the summer's rivalry be tween young men who have been living on Long Island and vying with each other at polo ever since they were old enough to pick up the rudiments of the world's most patrician pastime. On the same afternoon that Hurlingham was losing at Meadow Brook, Old Westbury was losing at nearby Bostwick Field to Seymour Knox's Aurora, champions...
...They introduced a hundred odd characters drawn from every level of Parisian society in 1908, outlined a dozen major complications that ranged from the discreet bribing of a radical deputy to a murder committed by a perverse bookbinder. The only theme linking the unrelated incidents and careers was the threat of a general European war which, looming large in the consciousness of more farsighted characters, filled them with a sense of urgency and strain...
...even stronger language the Bullitt note declared that the Roosevelt Administration "anticipates the most serious consequences if the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is unwilling or unable to take appropriate measures to prevent further disregard of the solemn pledge given by it. . . ." Finally came the threat that if violations continue "the development of friendly relations between the Russian and American peoples will inevitably be precluded...