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...weaknesses. Telling again the story of the Whiskey Ring exposure, the panic of 1873, the affair of the U. S. Minister to England who floated a dishonest mining corporation, of Attorney General Williams who paid his large household expenses with Federal funds, of Grant's scheme to annex Santo Domingo for the benefit of his friends, Author Nevins clearly establishes his thesis that Grant looked on the Presidency as "a reward not a responsibility." Loyal to his friends even after their dishonesty was proved, Grant blocked the impeachment of Secretary of War William W. Belknap after the Secretary...
...view of the decision of the Italian Government to annex the whole of Ethiopia and the consequent menace to our posi-tion in Africa and the Near East, His Majesty's Government have made it clear in unmistakable terms that under no circumstances will interference by Italy with the existing regimes in Egypt and Palestine be permitted, and any attempt to do so will be considered as an unfriendly act ... to be repelled by all the means at their command...
...outfit was able to keep the struggling Lion pretty was able to keep the struggling Lion pretty well caged up. charley Morgan, home team moundsman, was touched for 10 safeties. In addition the invading forces took advantage of several infield and outfield miscues by the Lion in order to annex their 6-3 triumph...
...London last week for the Nemesis of Nazis, James Grover McDonald of Bronxville, N. Y. who since 1933 has been the League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from Germany, was mailed his 3,000-word resignation in 17 numbered sections with a 20,000 word annex attached. It did not state why the High Commissioner resigned...
Squaring the Circle (by Valentine Katayev; translated and adapted by Charles Malamuth and Eugene Lyons; produced by Tri-Art Enterprises). This farce was first staged seven years ago by The Studio (experimental annex) of the Moscow Art Theatre, has since become the most popular of Soviet comedies. More than a million Russians have seen it. It has been produced in Paris, Vienna, London, Rome, Berlin (by Max Reinhardt) and by numerous amateur and stock companies in the U. S. Consistently boisterous and occasionally funny, it is supposed to show that Russians can laugh at the pomposities of Communist doctrine under...