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...Henry Ford always has one eye cocked a-wind for competitive drifts, he always goes his own way, explains nothing. The current this time is not of necessity pushed by Chevrolet with its daily production of 3,000 cars, nor by the new Overland Whippet, nor yet by the threat of small foreign models. The demand for Fords has abated, although not so much as some journalistic conjecture would have...
...State Charles Evans Hughes, by championing with great persistence the rights of Nippon. While the Immigration Bill was pending before the Senate (TIME, April 28, 1924, CONGRESS), Ambassador Hanihara, an experienced diplomat, but goaded to extremities by the Senate's anti-Japanese predilections, staked all upon a "diplomatic threat" to the Secretary of State that "grave consequences" might follow the enactment of the Japanese exclusion clause of the bill. The Senate, reacting violently and negatively to the Hanihara note, promptly rushed through the present immigration legislation debarring all Japanese, except ministers, artists, students, their wives, their children...
...rumbles of the conflict which started in March over the admission of Germany, to a permanent seat on the council are even now disturbing the Geneva organization. Spain and Brazil remain firm in their threat to resign if they are not awarded permanent seats...
...perhaps dubitable. Although the Secretary of the Treasury backed the Senator, Mr. Coolidge held off his official support until the last moment. The insurgent Republicans have never been strong in the Keystone State and whatever reaction exists can probably be interpreted as the traditional mid-term anti-administration threat...
...sweep of Irish history through the ancient family trees-old kings and warriors and battles from Queen Maeve in the day of giants to tart Timothy Healy, and the Fenian men humming the "Shan Van Voght," the Song of Defeat, which is through the book like a soft threat...