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...hereby and above all else solemnly annul the signature extorted from a weak and impotent government against its better knowledge, confessing Germany's responsibility for the late...
...culminating in a post-election Rooseveltian "message to the public" called The Election-An Interpretation. This year Publisher Macfadden, who no longer approves of Contributor Roosevelt's policies, came forward in his own person as a Republican possibility, announced with no false modesty that, if elected, he would annul "fool laws," put down "racketeers." Before the Cleveland Convention in June, Candidate Macfadden was briefly touted by friends, including Novelist Thomas Dixon. Depth of Mr. Macfadden's political thinking is indicated by his belief that Russia and Japan are planning early attacks...
Next day Mrs. Spencer indulged in a spectacular reversal of form. Hurrying to La Porte to try to annul the marriage, Mrs. Spencer announced that she now thought her 200-lb. son-in-law had traded on her daughter's maternal instincts. Said Mrs. Spencer: "It was just on account of his being sickly and weak that Baby married him, I know. She is so kind-hearted and sympathetic." Gist of Mrs. Spencer's complaint soon proved to be that she did not have a high regard for the social standing of young Wright's parents...
...according to the story told in Washington, was not of his doing. Senator Black, disappointed that his investigation had produced no appreciable public response, went to the White House to suggest action. Against the advice of his Postmaster General the President, in a moment of righteous enthusiasm, decided to annul the contracts, and announced cancellation from the White House over Mr. Farley's name. When the action proved a political mistake, a man in whom some other attachment came before loyalty might have acted differently from Mr. Farley. But he entered no disclaimer when the White House announced that...
...Government. Crazy Jack was contented. His chief pleasure was standing on the curb before the house, pretending to be a traffic cop and holding up his hand at automobiles. The only disruption of his last days occurred in March when the Government finally got a court to annul his marriage. That meant little to him, however, for the Lowe woman stayed on as his housekeeper...