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...some 6,000,000 morning and evening papers white-haired, drab-mustached Sir Ernest Willoughby Petter's picture promptly appeared. Said the Rothermere Daily Mail: "Sir Ernest Petter, one of the country's foremost business men, threw a bombshell into official Conservative circles last night...
Squatting upon the speakers' platform Mr. Gandhi ignored the Communists utterly, moved not a muscle when Communists tore his Congress flag from the platform and put up their own. He waited tranquil and serene while Nationalists threw the Communists and their red flag out, restored the red, green & white Nationalist flag...
Death came kindly last week to Dr. Hermann Müller, the Socialist Deputy who "threw away his career" by signing the Treaty of Versailles for Germany, then fooled everyone by twice becoming Chancellor of the German Republic...
...gasoline pump business while performing in Davis Cup matches and international tournaments since 1923. Last week he dictated a letter to his secretary while riding in a taxicab to play his final match. Bell, who has beaten him once before, served well but so did Borotra, who threw two points in the third set, loafed in the fourth, broke through Bell's serve once in the fifth, then ended the match with a love game...
...prominent body joined in demanding a thoroughgoing municipal cleanup: The Citizens Union under Henry Morgenthau, onetime Ambassador to Turkey; the Public Affairs Committee under Socialist Norman Thomas; the City Affairs Committee under Rev. John Haynes Holmes and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise. The Greater New York Federation of Churches next threw its weight into the movement, and then the New York Board of Trade. The latter appointed a Vigilantes Committee of 20, announced that it had been spying on City Hall for the past year. The Roman Catholic Church remained silent. In the absence of Patrick Cardinal Hayes, a spokesman said...