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...Times and Telegraph & Morning Post obediently printed no word of the speech. The Daily Express carried the speech for one edition, then wavered and cut it out altogether in a second, in a third merely hinted at it. The Daily Mail first quoted Lord Stanhope's words, then withdrew the quotes but not the story. Only the Liberal News Chronicle decided to publish story and quotes. The news was a shock to the public, an alarming indication of how close the Government believed war might be and how unheralded its arrival...
...reasons Cinemactress Helen Vinson gave last December for suing Fred Perry for divorce was his insisting that she sit through all his tennis matches. Last week, after Tennist Perry had been trounced three times in a row by Donald Budge on their first joint professional tour, Miss Vinson withdrew suit, rejoined her husband...
Surveying him suspiciously, the bartender withdrew the drink farther and farther from reach. "You study, doncha? That's enough...
...special meeting held immediately after the ballots were counted the Council withdrew the election scheduled for today and Thursday by striking out the sections of its by-laws on Freshman Elections...
...Regency. Trustee Shearn is in almost every physical respect the opposite of shaggy, elephantine Publisher Hearst. He promptly set out to prove himself the opposite, also, in business management. He withdrew the proposed debenture issues, got enough bank credit to stave off the crisis, told Hearst he would have to live on whatever allowance could be spared from, his creditors. He gathered around him a staff of top-flight Hearst executives headed by the Chief's old favorite, Thomas J. White, and consisting of Harry M. Bitner, general manager of newspapers; Richard E. Berlin, publisher of magazines; Joseph...