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...speak into a microphone provided for his use, an excited fair-skinned dowager seized it herself, uttered sounds which British radio listeners may well have thought were words spoken by His Majesty in his native Amharic-until an announcer cleared up the mistake. As Good Old Haile Selassie withdrew into the house, 1,000 admirers out front snapped up popular dailies, one of which cried under a banner headline: ''Haile Selassie is a welcome visitor, for he belongs to that band of men with the courage to stand up against tyranny and stand by what is right...
...French peasants would rather be governed by a man of their own sturdy race than by a great intelligence which has been nurtured on the Talmud!" Other deputies not of the Left proceeded to chime in and soon new Premier Leon Blum had become so embarrassed that he withdrew briefly from the Chamber while gentile Edouard Herriot bellowed at the top of his great voice: "There are no Jews here, no Protestants, no Catholics-but only Frenchmen...
...Billy'') Shepard as commander-in-chief. To citizens there "Dr. Billy" was a "harmless old coot." incurably hipped on the preservation of Southern chivalry. Eleven years ago he appeared at a Ku Klux Klan meeting dressed in black, attended by "Black Guards," stirred up Klan resentment. He withdrew with his Black Guards, who apparently burgeoned, without his assistance, into the Legion. Refusing to define his position, "Dr. Billy" said: "You have to have mystery in a fraternal thing to keep it alive; the folks...
Great was the relief of pharmacologists, therefore, when President McKitterick withdrew the acrolein advertising story pending further experiments, which are still going on. Sole use now of the diethylene glycol angle is among doctors. In some 40 medical journals, and there only, Philip Morris runs quiet advertising about its hygroscopic agent. At every big medical convention Philip Morris salesmen pass out packs to the delegates, discuss cigaret pharmacology with them in learned language...
...Heimwehr hustled out to Waxenberg, hid in the new wing of the castle. About midnight a column of automobiles drew near the grounds. Out tumbled 50 apple-cheeked young Nazis who began tiptoeing toward the castle. Heimwehrmen swarmed out like bees. There was a rattle of shots. The Nazis withdrew, leaving two of their band dead on the ground...