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...cannot be emphasized too strongly that no upset is possible here without a grave disturbance inside the Communist party, the preliminary signs of which would be unmistakable. Nothing of the sort is evident now. Quite the contrary...
...reason why no upset of the Soviet Government is possible without "preliminary signs" is pronounced "Gay-pay-oo." Last week the first picture of Gay-pay-oo's supreme and secretive head reached...
When his sleigh upset, smashing its tail light, Fred Johnson of Brantford, Ont., drove on through the night, was arrested. Said the stern Canadian judge, fining Sleighrider Johnson $1 for driving without a tail light: "When your light was smashed you should have remained where upset until daylight...
Last week the busiest men in Congress were that heterogeneous crew of Republican Senators and Representatives called Insurgents. They passed no big bills. They made no important speeches. They upset no prime appointments. Yet with their busy-buzzing activities they managed to keep President Hoover on pins-&-needles. Though he had checkmated their attempt fortnight ago to recall three Federal Power Commission nominatons, they found new and diverse ways of obstructing his orthodox Republican leadership...
...Professor Lowe,* meteorologist and inventor, built the balloon City of New York, then the largest ever constructed (diameter, 130 ft.), for a flight across the Atlantic. The outbreak of the Civil War upset that plan. Professor Lowe went to Washington to propose to General Winfield Scott the formation of a balloon corps. The General was not impressed, finally lent his ear and his aid only at the personal prompting of President Lincoln...