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...week he told newsmen of the Institute of Journalism that their minds function far behind their time. Their backwardness of comprehension he called "time lag." Just as Great Britain long failed to recognize the United States as a permanent Republic and George Washington as anything but "one of the blackest scoundrels that ever existed," so today "the press has not yet recognized that the [Russian] revolution has taken place," said...
...Conservative Party? Or that No. i Man Stanley Baldwin had decided not to oppose passage of the Act by acclaim? Mr. Churchill is the grandson of a duke (Marlborough) with the fighting instincts of a Grand Mogul or a rat-hunting terrier. Singlehanded, while Conservative whips treated him to blackest looks, Well-dined "Winnie" flayed the Treaty, repeated thunderously his now famed anti-Treaty slogan...
First big result of President Hoover's statement: stocks on the New York exchange, having coasted downward for a week as the tariff's passage grew more certain, definitely plunged in the year's blackest trading day thus far. ¶ President Hoover greeted at the White House Senhor Julio Prestes, President-elect of Brazil. At a state dinner in the Pan-American Union President Hoover accorded for the first time full social honors to Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, sister and hostess of Vice President Curtis, by escorting her to the table, seating her at his right...
...began to speak ex tempore about India, and they bore with him. He went home supposing that politically everything was all right, and found that his dog was dead. Meanwhile raging Indian editors from Calcutta to Bombay were tearing out the whole front page, setting up in their biggest, blackest, angriest type such screamers as: EARL RUSSELL VOIDS THE VICEROY'S PLEDGE! REFUSES INDIA DOMINION STATUS!! OUR REPRISALS JUSTIFIED !!! In hundreds of irate editorials the Earl-Under-Secretary was quoted as saying: "It will not be possible to grant Dominion Status to India for a long time to come...
...make a buyer or seller on the other side of the ring understand, they bent low and plunged for the round brass railing, elbowing each others stomachs, yelling "Seven-Jan-Santos!" or "Four-Dec-Rio!" Arms waved and fingers waggled. It was stark, raving business bedlam-the biggest, blackest, wildest day in years on the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange...