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...Thus we planned and worked to sow discouragement and produce crisis in the Soviet land, to prepare intervention by foreign foes, to restore the capitalists and landlords and to plunge the country afresh into a bloody war. In these plans and this work the central role was played by me-I admit...
...canes (result of a sprained ankle caused when a scaffolding on Mount Rushmore collapsed), he bubbled with new plans for Stone Mountain. The Lukeman Lee, Traveller the horse and his brick-water stains, all were to be blasted off. On the residue of Stone Mountain, Gutzon Borglum would start afresh, but this, the latest Lee, would be 450 ft. high...
Prohibition. Prime Minister Bennett during his campaign threatened to have repealed for economic reasons the new Canadian law forbidding the export of liquor to the U. S. Should Minister MacNider fail to avert such repeal, the whole Prohibition smuggling question would come up afresh between the two countries...
When, in 1908, Virginia sent General Robert E. Lee to Statuary Hall as one of its two most distinguished sons (Washington was the other), embers of Civil War bitterness flared afresh in sectional denunciations. With the return of President Davis as one of Mississippi's two finest citizens, no voice was raised against him, so dead are the fires of that old strife...
While reporters typed stories of this happy birthday, came other more sinister reports. In changing the title of his country from "The Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats & Slovenes" to the "Kingdom of Jugoslavia," Dictator-King Alexander has set boiling afresh a stew of acute racial feeling. In the Cathedral at Zagreb a sharp-eared sacristan discovered a ticking bomb timed to explode during the King's birthday mass. Railway employes fished a 60-lb. bomb off the tracks of the Zagreb-Belgrade railroad just before the special train of a royalist delegation was due to pass. In Zagreb railway...