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...been the richest man in Germany, for a time, while the mark was falling, and he was building great pyramided super-trusts. What? Fraulein Stinnes shrugged. Why trouble to rehearse the details of her father's death and the titanic business crash which her brothers were powerless to avert. Clarenore Stinnes is 22, lives in the present, is rich...
...Republican leaders know that as against Gov. Smith their local tickets in the cities all the way from Boston to Chicago are going to be dangerously threatened. Naturally they are looking for a Presidential candidate who looks as if he might avert this danger...
...believes in the League of Nations method, one must practice it. It is not worth while to proclaim its benefits every year during one month only, to return during eleven other months to tactics which failed to avert the World War. That is the reason why I will not go to Geneva...
...please this or that nation we consent to take international differences away* from the League of Nations and accustom the Gov ernment to consider that they can escape its judgment, how can we appeal to the Covenant of the League [to avert war] when, between 1935 and 1940, the critical hour, forecast? and awaited by Mussolini, strikes...
...avert this threatened unpleasantness, the Governor's friends introduced a bill giving the Governor as well as other state officials immunity from quo warranto proceedings. Critics questioned the constitutionality of the measure, but the Illinois Senate speedily passed it. Last week it came up in the House, on which occasion Representative Miller made his comparison between the Governor and Judas and his remark about hands reaching up to the shoulders. Despite these criticisms, the House passed the bill, 108 to 29, and Governor Small speedily signed...