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...Colonel Theodore Roosevelt's tirade against the Tiger of Tammany and the ghost of Tweed incarnate in Governor Smith was not only untrue, it was political blunder of the worst kind. It is better for the opposition not to meet Smith face to face but rather to direct Fabian warfare on his friends, relations, and religion...
...Aged Tiger. General Pershing, Commanders Savage and Spafford and a delegation largely representative of the 48 States, trooped up the steps of a house in the Avenue de Messine, Paris. When the door opened, an 87-year-old figure in grey uniform, grey police cap and grey cotton gloves hurried down the hall. "How do you do? Old friend, what are you doing here?" said the grey figure...
...Came the Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, Oct. 4) whose armies, originally one with the Hankow "Communist" forces, have now conquered the Southern half of China. Then, amid cheers and bugle blasts, came the great Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang-an abundant fellow, massive, barrel-sized, jowled like a tiger, and last week unshaven, scowling, imperious in the pride of his new power...
Parisian publishers cannot get M. Georges Eugene Adrien Clemenceau, famed "Tiger of France," to write his memoirs. They can only console one another by making a good story out of his sharp, testy rejoinders when they approach him. Last week one more disappointed and rebuffed seeker after the memoirs of M. Clemenceau told ruefully what "Le Tigre" had growled...
...Mille fois non!" cried "Tiger" Clemenceau, "I never read War books-jamais! They are untrue-all of them! Why should I read what some other man has to say about the War when I probably know more about it than he does...