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...surrounded Mr. Henry Morgenthau Jr., son of the famed War-time U. S. Ambassador to Turkey. With pencils poised they requested intimate news of Henry Morgenthau Sr., now circling the globe and known to be somewhere in the Near East. Would young Mr. Morgenthau vouchsafe a few words anent his distinguished parent? Speedily the pencils began to race as Morgenthau Jr. spoke...
...London, one Alderman Lambeth paused amid dead silence for one minute and twelve seconds during the course of a speech which he was making in Borough Council anent labor conditions. Resuming his speech, he declared: "You have just sat and fidgeted through the 72-second eternity which it takes the average workman to lay one brick...
Lawyer Darrow then adjusted his thumbs for battle, in the armholes of his vest, and twitted Senator Lenroot as follows, for having grown tedious at one point, anent the Court's organization...
...Forbes, onetime Scotch printers devil, now editor of the financial bi-weekly which bears his name, penned many a hard word anent the late tobacco millionaire, James B. Duke, and published them in his latest issue a fortnight...
When the Reichstag opened late last week, a day of merely perfunctory debate was followed by important party caucuses anent the Locarno Treaties...