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...before of heart trouble, aged 60. He had been an important U. S. delegate to the conference and spent very much time on several of its 150 committees. Also he had been chairman of the U. S. Radio Commission since it was formed last March to regulate the bedlam of the air. President Coolidge appointed him to that post because Admiral Bullard had kept in touch with every step of wireless communication since it first became practical in the 1890's. President Wilson also appreciated him; detached him from naval duties so that he could act as director...
Immediately bedlam was let loose. Angry Laborites chorused: "We want Baldwin! The Prime Minister! We want a responsible Minister! We want to know what the Government is doing and the President of the Board of Trade is not the Minister to give the answer! Baldwin! Baldwin!! BALDWIN...
Wall Street, The news reached the New York Stock Exchange after closing hours. Next morning bedlam reigned?a bedlam of selling. It looked as though Wall Street's interpretation was that the "Coolidge Bull Market" had ended. But by luncheon time, the shrewd were profiting by the haste of the nervous. A buying reaction set in that expressed Wall Street's more considered faith in the availability of Mr. Coolidge if needed and the stability of the G. O. P. if he is not needed. The net decline of 50 representative stocks on the day of "panic" was only...
Alexander I, harassed king of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, received the resignation of Premier Nikola T. Uzunovitch last week, as the shaky coalition supporting his Cabinet collapsed amid a bedlam of local party squabbles. By His Majesty's command onetime Minister of Public Works Velja Vaounkitchivitch formed a seemingly most unstable Cabinet upon a coalition of Radicals and Democrats, parties hitherto bitterly opposed...
...telegrams poured in. People brought him dead cats and said ,he had advertised for them. Three florid women came with valises, and went away insulted. Some two hundred children came with jelly glasses full of spiders. They had heard that Herr Strauss could pay for them. It was bedlam, pandemonium...