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...decreed in the summer of 1932, when Von Papen, who was then in power, attempted to seize the power of the Prussian state. When Sevening, the Prussian leader, refused him this power, Von Papen said that "If this is a question of right--then he is willing of agree beforehand as to the amount of violence necessary to be undergone to save his face...
...British Government intends to influence this decision by informing us of its intended measures, then the Ambassador may rest assured nothing will come of it. . . . Matters such as attempted harsh diplomatic pressure from the outside might be successful in Mexico,* but in Russia they are doomed to failure beforehand...
Unless a House and Senate majority veto it beforehand, the Roosevelt order becomes effective...
Unlike most young U. S. singers engaged lately by the Metropolitan, Tenor Crooks had made his name beforehand. At 11 he was a wonder boy soprano, commuting from his home in Trenton to sing at All Angels' Episcopal Church in Manhattan. At 12 he sang with Ernestine Schumann-Heink in a huge Ocean Grove (N. J.) festival, maintained perfect poise until the motherly contralto brought him back for a bow, gave him a resounding kiss. The War turned Richard Crooks's mind from singing. He overstated his age to join the 626th Aero Squadron, learned flying from...
...mighty bad." At first the mountain people were slow in accepting help from the Frontier Nurses, suspicious of such things as vaccination until it was pointed out that the same thing was done to their hogs. Now the demand for nurses is so great that babies must be booked beforehand. In seven years 1,000 deliveries have been made without a single maternal death from pregnancy or labor...