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...poor men means a loss of business. . . . Let's call for sacrifices all round. Instead of starting with the weak and hopeless-that is, the unemployed down-&-outs-let's start at the top . . . unless we are willing to say, 'Let them starve.'" Not long afterward the Cabinet split mortally and foundered. Down went most of Labor. Up went the Three. Old George, largely because he had built so many orange-colored bath houses in his home district, managed to get reelected. But as far as Labor was concerned, he had spoken his piece. Other...
...Moscow strong-jawed General Vassili Blücher, commander of Red troops in Siberia, spoke just as bluntly to the All-Union Communist Party Congress, and made no retractions afterward...
Chronicle took the meeting by surprise when he charged Duke's faculty with undermining student morale by its outspoken hostility to the administration. He called on professors to put their own complaints in writing or hold their tongues. The students passed his resolution. Afterward they remembered Editor Edmondson's reputed closeness to Dean Wannamaker, wondered if they had not endorsed a bright red herring. From the Endowment trustees came no answer to the students' telegram. Said Dean Wannamaker: "I like to see the students have some fun. They acted too hastily. They do not know exactly what...
...weeks Senator Black had learned that in May 1930 there had been a meeting of big air line operators in the Post Office Department at which Mr. MacCracken presided. The meeting's purpose was to carve up the U. S. air map and apportion mail routes and subsidies. Afterward President Hoover's Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown had given them exactly what they wanted...
...ever been in a worse fix. Yes, he answered, once-"when a man came to see me from afar and I was so poor that I had nothing in the house to offer him." Adamic was offered and refused the Jugoslavian Order of the White Eagle, afterward had a mutually cold interview with King Alexander, whom he considers of a piece with "the rest of the tyrants and dictators...