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...blinked and "Hank"' Muller's arms flailed the air, there arose 1 mighty, measured yell: N N N N A A A A V V V V Y Y Y Y Nay-vee! Holy Father! Holy Father! Holy Father! As had Benito Mussolini when he got similar acclaim at the Palazzo Venetia, Pius XI recovered from the shock quickly and gracefully. He called "Hank" Muller to him for congratulations, smilingly waved down at 399 red, grinning faces...
...crypt 20 miles from Paris, her remains were placed beside those of her husband. Only witnesses were her daughters, son-in-law, a handful of intimate associates. One by one, in silence, they filed past the casket and each laid on it a rose. The world Press rang with acclaim for the greatest woman scientist in history...
This was not the first time that Congress had heard charges against Judge Wilkerson, who won great public acclaim in 1931 by sentencing Al Capone to jail for eleven years. A short time after President Harding made him a Federal judge in 1922, he issued a drastic injunction which broke the railway shop strike and earned him the undying enmity of Labor. Two years ago, President Hoover tried to appoint Judge Wilkerson to the Circuit Court of Appeals. Railway labor promptly sent a representative to protest to the Senate against confirmation of the nomination. The nomination was never confirmed. Labor...
...courts, she pleaded, compel Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Trader Horn's producers, to give her $1,000,000 in a hurry so that she could get treatment in the School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in London? Her plea brought out her obscure history before & after the flamboyant acclaim...
...long there will be more hair-tearing and grinding of molars in the Chambers. The support given to an emergency Cabinet, and the prestige of its veteran, good-natured leader, can only stave off for a time the woes to which France's parliamentary system dooms her. The wide acclaim of Doumergue's accession has nothing to do with the case, for he is wedded to a Cabinet system with a caricature of responsibility. Only the President, with senatorial approval, can dissolve the Chambers, and call, as in England, for a decision between Ins and Outs; and this has been...