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...Home Secretary, Sir John Simon, strove to uphold British rights of freedom to demonstrate, but he thought it necessary to cancel all police leaves and send 10,000 Bobbies to keep order in East London. Too late to avert the riot, Commissioner of Metropolitan Police Sir Philip Game informed Sir Oswald that mobsters were getting out of hand and the 5,000 Fascists could not be allowed to march. In a closed car, the windshield of which was quickly smashed by a paving stone, the Fascist leader rushed to his lined-up Blackshirts, yelled "Sir Philip has banned the march...
...meeting of milk producers in Syracuse retorted by wiring the Governor: "What do you advise to avert a milk holiday? Immediate reply desired." Caught in an election year between his milk-producing and his milk-consuming constituents, all that Herbert Lehman could think of was to order his Commissioner of Agriculture to call a conference...
Last week the doctors at Coronado feared that this proposal would become law. They foresaw more financial troubles for private hospitals and for themselves, poorer medical service by & large for the State's inhabitants. But they could agree on no procedure to avert the blow...
Sleuth Penkethman knows all about Walter from the start, drops ambiguous warnings in his ear about Penthièvre, suggests it might avert suspicion if Leroy and Cassie appeared to be lovers. Nothing loth, they do their best to keep up appearances, soon find themselves actually falling in love. Towards the end of the voyage the ship's radio brings news of the king's assassination in Paris; then denies it. Penthièvre and Penkethman grow more & more ambiguous; Leroy and Cassie remain naive and amorous. When they get to Paris the lovers are first delighted, then...
Finally last week M. Vandervelde and Sir Walter decided that Europe's present crisis is so grave (see p. 25) that the Second International and the International Federation of Trade Unions must again meet in joint congress for the first time since their joint effort to avert the World War failed. Rushing out invitations for such a congress on March 18, they prepared for a supreme Socialist-Labor effort to maintain Peace...