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...more tradition's chains shall bind us, Arise, ye slaves, no more in thrall...
...days that followed, Paris had a chance to bind up its wounds. Accurate figures on casualties were almost impossible to obtain. Checking the official figures against their own careful survey of all Paris hospitals, U. S. news agencies agreed that 16 people had been killed, about 400 seriously wounded. Finally French officials admitted 21 dead, 2,400 seriously wounded...
...best of bringing about a reform in the monetary systems of the world. If the president succeeds in this, he may go down in history as having contributed as much toward the economic welfare of the world in the reconstruction period as America did in endeavoring to bind the world together in covenants and treaties of peace
...bandits, faces masked by towels, levelling pistols at his head & heart. "Hello," said he calmly. Abruptly he snatched the towel from the face of one of the bandits, barking, "Who are you? What are you doing in this building?" When the other pulled out a rope to bind him, Publisher McGraw lunged forward, grappled with both, unmasked the second bandit. His companion dropped his revolver, pulled out a hammer swaddled in a towel. Publisher McGraw dodged, then prudently subsided. They bound & gagged him, took $90 from his coat pocket, escaped. Released by a porter. Publisher McGraw gruffly told newshawks...
...President Roosevelt's grey and gracious little disarmament dickerer, Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis, Germany has been pressed by the U. S., Britain, France and Italy to enter a four-year convention for European armament control (TIME, Oct. 2). In effect a standstill pact, this convention would bind each power not to up its armaments before 1938, would create an international inspection board to see that all nations were keeping their pledges, would provide for eventual parity of armaments between Germany and France, but not until after the four-year standstill had been scrupulously observed...