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...Fahne, arrested its editor "for inciting troops to mutiny against the new government." In the country he sent bus loads of soldiers careening over dusty roads to remove guns and munitions from rural arsenals lest they be seized by rioters. Only then did he sit down, wipe his pink brow, and rest. He needed the rest. Worried friends last week reminded each other that for many years Policeman Schober's heart has been none too strong...
...Nations met in Geneva, last week, to talk "Security," "Disarmament" and then the "United States of Europe." P. is for Persia and alphabetically it was P.'s turn to preside. Nervously Persia's swart Prince Mirza Mohammed Ali Khan Foroughi assumed the chair. Perspiring, he constantly wiped his brow with a bright pink silk handkerchief. Then diffidently, as though conscious that the words of a Prince were as chaff to these commoners, he sped the Assembly's, proceedings with a dash of Orient philosophy thus...
...Holbrook used the phrase "political nigger lovers" in denouncing Mrs. De Priest's visit to the White House, Senator Love rushed at him savagely, shouting: "Any man who says the 300,000 Texans who voted for Hoover are nigger-lovers has the word LIAR branded across his brow." In Florida, another Negro-subjugating state that voted for Hoover, a resolution was passed, 71 to 13, in the state house, condemning "certain social policies of the administration. . . ." In presenting it, Representative Way, Democrat, said: "The State of Florida has been betrayed...
...Deftly Miss Nelson demotes Aurelia's husband to an out-of-town office, adroitly she arranges dinner for the Greeleys at Mr. Cooper's home. There a fellow guest asks Mrs. Greeley whether she prefers Bach to Stravinsky. Her coy retort, "Isn't he the high-brow cutup, though?" echoes into ghastly silence. That night she admits to her husband that his rapid rise has not been...
...brow shall have another furrow...