Word: ams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Free on $5,000 bond and back in his hotel suite, Fall issued a 3,000-word statement to the public. Said he: "I ask the American people not to believe me guilty of the damnable crime [bribery] of which I am innocent." He admitted only "two grave errors:" 1...
¶ Baited to reveal what the Government had done, if anything, about unemployment was Minister of Unemployment J. H. ("Jim") Thomas, onetime engine cleaner, easy-going demagog. As he approached the House of Parliament Mr. Thomas was escorted by a man who had loaded himself with rusty iron chains and...
Next morning M. Briand said that the Havas Agency had misunderstood him, added that of course his telephone would have been answered if it had rung. In a bristling statement from which it appeared that somebody was lying, he declared: "To my surprise I learned in the evening that Daladier...
*Meticulous, he recently said: "I consider myself a vegetarian, although it is true I am 65, and have confined myself to vegetables only for the last 20 years."
"Well," he roared, "Why don't you open, the Sejm? I am waiting. We are all waiting!"