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...Mexicans that Picket would be gored to death that they provided a coffin and burial squad. Entering the arena on a cayuse, Picket jumped on the back of the charging bull, sank his teeth in the bull's nose,, within seven minutes was sitting on its head. To avert a brawl between side-betting Mexican sports and Col. Miller's show hands, President Porfirio Diaz gave Picket a military escort, guaranteed the prize money...
...freedom of Captain Dreyfus. Jaures remained irreconcilably radical. Taking the constructive road of compromise, both Clemenceau and Briand had become Premier of France before citizen Jean Jaures was assassinated July 31, 1914. Explicitly predicting and clearly foreseeing the World War, Citizen Jaures had been working day and night to avert the conflict by visionary appeals to Socialists throughout the world to persuade their Governments not to fight...
...effect only by a strong dictatorship. A dictatorship, with the militant opposition certain in Germany, spells revolution. But if Hitler pursues a conservative policy his shaky party may dissolve, and he will fall. The only hope of the Nazis is to discover a strong and skillful policy which will avert the destruction which threatens to destroy them...
Witness of the crash was Col. Young's information chief, Frederick R. Neely. A shrewd publicity manager, he requested authority to notify newspapers of the accident to avert wild rumors, scare headlines. The Press came, saw, got answers to its questions, went away satisfied that the story was trivial. Result: news reports were brief. 98% accurate...
...Spring of 1929, when fear of the failure of the Young Plan negotiations created a flight from the mark; again, in the Fall of 1930, when the results of the elections caused another flight, and, finally, in the Summer of 1931, when even the moratorium failed to avert an acute financial arises which paralyzed German business. Certainly the inability of Germany to develop a large export surplus must be regarded as a major factor in precipitating the depression in 1929 and in intensifying the depression in the Fall of 1930 and the Summer...