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During the week Liberal troops took Jinotega (near Matagalpa) from Conservative forces which quietly withdrew without offering battle...
...between the Uplift and honest lives." Politics, osteopathy, Baptist-thumping, Rotary-scourging, prostitution in Missouri, absurdity in the press, failed to amuse Mr. Nathan after the first year. An amiable sybarite who would rather be known for the tang of his cocktail than the depth of his mind, he withdrew as co-editor continuing to contribute only "Clinical Notes" and theatre talk. With Alfred A. Knopf to oil the wheels, and Samuel Knopf Sr. to inspect and supervise as business manager, Editor Mencken stoked his engine with a wide variety of engaging combustibles- articles by articulate hoboes and Senators, bishops...
Explaining that he probably found the wrong house he withdrew and without a cent in his pocket in the early hours of the morning was on the street with no place...
...tough job for the President to give a job to William Josiah Tilson, brother of House Floor Leader John Q. Tilson of Connecticut. Last spring the President nominated him as Judge in a newly created Federal district in Georgia, but withdrew his name when the Senate showed hostility. When the long session adjourned, the President gave him a recess appointment. In the short session the President repeated this performance and last week presented Mr. Tilson with a second recess appointment. Senators were vexed. Said Senator Harris of Georgia: "If he [the President] can withdraw appointments from confirmation and make recess...
...Peace was concluded with Germany at Brest-Litovsk and ratified by the Congress of "People's Committees" on such unfavorable terms that the dissenting "Lesser Group" or Mensheviki withdrew in protest from the Congress, henceforth Bolshevik...