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...anvil of public controversy President Hoover and Speaker Garner last week hammered out a red-hot campaign issue on Unemployment Relief. The issue: How far should the Federal Government go to take up the burden of private debt...
...building the Goeben and many another grim battle boat Germany dashed into the naval race with Britain which led straight to World War. Shrill above the German shipyards' anvil warbeat rose Kaiser Wilhelm's royal ravings...
...book called The Philippines, A Treasure and a Problem in which they thought he defamed their public integrity and private morals. The Balintawac meeting at which 20,000 were expected was the feeble culmination of vigorous political agitation. A copy of the Roosevelt book was violently hammered on an anvil, doused in kerosene, burned on a bamboo pyre before the statue of Andres Bonifacio, one of the native leaders of the vain 1896 revolution against Spain. When a peasant in the crowd shouted Matay si Roosevelt ("Death to Roosevelt"), leaders quickly hushed...
...night last week had a grand time. At Chicago's Soldier Field 4,000 contest winners from 35 midwest cities roared the Hallelujah Chorus, 1,100 musicians blared through such barber-shop favorites as "Home, Sweet Home," "Sweet Adeline," a squad of "Blacksmiths" banged 6-in. sparks from anvils in time to Il Trovatore's Anvil Chorus, cannons on the lakefront boomed for Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. Proceeds of the festival went to charity...
Here, obviously, is a Clémenceau "just talking," smiting the conversational anvil for the fun of seeing sparks fly. Of Greece?the grand, spiritual inspiration of Clémenceau's life, almost his religion? Clémenceau could say to Martet in humorous vein...