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...chapter were chosen to be orators; often two Seniors, whose subjects were noticeable for indefiniteness: Friendship; History; Industry; Happiness; Man (this last led to an entry in the diary of the Reverend Dr. John Pierce, indefatigable guest at anniversaries during a period of forty years: "The oration of Br. Pipon on Man consisted of miscellaneous and severely critical remarks on man.") By 1796, however, the custom of inviting one poet and one orator to take part in each anniversary had been initiated; and the list of great Americans who have accepted this honor, and made the gatherings memorable by their...
...initiative, now needed finally to dispel the danger of a collapse, Germany took like a bashful Brünnhilde last week with these coy words: "The idea has come more and more to the front of ... convoking a special advisory committee...
...invited to public functions, allowed to snap his shutter openly. He has attended League of Nations meetings. He snapped the signing of the Kellogg Pact. When the late great Gustav Stresemann made his last speech at Geneva, Dr. Salomon was calmly seated below the rostrum. He accompanied Chancellor Brüning and German Foreign Minister Curtius and snapped them sipping coffee with // Duce. Brer Briand, Europe's "Master Parliamentarian," has given him a nickname that has stuck: Le Roi des Indiscrets, King of the Indiscreet...
...Foreign Minister Aristide Briand to Berlin-first official German visit of any French statesmen since French Foreign Minister William Henry Waddington * led a French delegation to the Congress of Berlin in 1878-produced but one concrete result last week: It proved that the Government of German Chancellor Heinrich Brüning is powerful enough to provide an enthusiastic welcome for anybody. On the Frenchmen's arrival nobody was allowed near Friedrich Strasse station but policemen and members of the Reichsbanner, organized into cheering sections. Outside the Hotel Adlon handpicked pedestrians marshalled by detectives lustily cheered Herren Laval & Briand. Statesmen...
Somebody did not bother to learn just which train was taking Chancellor Brüning and Foreign Minister Curtius back from Rome last week. As the regular Basle-Berlin express passed over an embankment near Jiiterbog, 40 miles from Berlin, an electrically wired artillery shell exploded beneath it. Nine cars were hurled from the track, rolled down the embankment. Fifteen people were seriously wounded; miraculously, no one was killed. In the dining car a cook was hurled into a cauldron of consomme, critically scalded. Nailed to a telegraph pole near the track was a front page of the Fascist...