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...statement which London editors unanimously called "ill timed," Mr. Thomas threatened that if the oath is abolished Great Britain will retaliate by refusing to renew the tariff preferences she now grants to the Free State. Obviously the timing of this threat was such as to enrage the Irish Senate just before it voted. It increased the chances that the bill would pass. Quietly jubilant in Dublin, teacherish President de Valera dryly said...
...above will succeed, as it seems likely to do, in establishing a military government, under the semblance of a "national" council, cannot be determined now. If it does, the tense feelings which predominate in the diplomatic relations of this country and Japan will in all likelihood be increased. Another threat to our economic and political interests in the Pacific will be more difficult to meet by peaceful means than was the last...
...trunk last week, for the State must supply to each candidate free billboard space. If the candidate, instead of advertising himself, used his space to advertise stomach tablets, shoe-blacking or mineral water, that used to be the candidate's own business-but no longer. Last week the threat of a 10.000-franc fine ($400) kept French political billboards uncluttered by advertisements...
...suppose that Mr. August Wagner has sufficient wealth to make it worth while kidnapping him. Let us suppose further that he i; kidnapped successfully by people who know their business, and that upon threat of mutilation or death he is persuaded to write his banker or other responsible person to produce a required sum from his estate and deliver to the kidnappers. Let us presume also that the kidnappers-threaten with the full intention of carrying it out, that Mr. Wagner be mutilated or killed if this sum is not provided in the manner demanded. Under those circumstances would...
...Funny Sayings' 'takes himself and his woes so seriously that missed the optimism and dash which we usually associate with song dance men. He was perhaps too too somber, too doleful. The boast the he was "the best song and dance in the world" failed to ring true: threat that he would throw himself the East River seemed far more possible. Mr. Brian's interpretation, however, is admisable; moreover it is vincing and consistent throughout...