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Meanwhile the do-nothing clique of politico-militarists who ousted Dictator Pangalos got together, last week, another Cabinet. It is the old one of Prime Minister Alexander Zaimis, re-formed to exclude Alexander Papanastasiou-which means nothing. The Cabinet has merely been reshuffled to allay strife over whether certain projected roads shall be built in Greece by Samkros Bros., Ltd. of London or by Fox Bros. of Berlin. Presumably Fox Bros. have lost, since their proponent was the ousted M. Papanastasiou...
...League of Nations, domestic questions, . . . or questions affecting a third party." It is hard to imagine a quarrel in which one of these clauses could not be invoked. But it there is one, it is the rankling question of debt settlement; and this treaty is obviously intended to allay the fear of the French that the United States might attempt elsewhere the militant methods of debt collection that she has found so successful in South America. Lately the French cartoonists have been making pointed pictorial insinuations about the inexplicably large navy which their star-spangled Shylock is providing...
...everyone knows, diphtheria, highly infectious disease, affects the throat. Germs, rod-shaped, breed there and give off toxins which cause the peculiar fever. Antitoxins can allay the fever. They are made by the blood of horses which have been methodically infected with diphtheria toxin. Such antitoxins constitute one of the few remedies which have a specific effect in treating disease. Without their injection the throat of a diphtheric child (most victims are from two to ten years of age) is apt to close up through the rapid forming of a false membrane across the air passage...
...unchangeable Catholic Church, with the sinners gathered back into the fold. The Church seeks temporal power in Italy; it deplores Mexico! it disapproves of Prohibition in the United States. All these things bring it to the attention of American Protestants. But the open letters and Theological explanations intended to allay fear of the primacy of the Church over the temporal affairs of its communicants have made few converts. No logic can move the man who says flatly that he will not elect for his president one who has kissed the Pope's ring, even, it may be supposed...
...double-O, eggs allay...