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...statement was a logical and moderate one, in line with our traditional policy in Eastern matters. It gave a dignity to bur diplomacy which had been sadly lacking before. So much the more unfortunate is this apparent effort to back it up with an aggressive display of force. Whether by design or coincidence, the administration is likely to cause another violent nationalistic reaction in Japan. Memory is all too clear about the effect on Japanese public opinion of the League's "firm stand" in November, and the anger caused by garbled accounts of Secretary Stimson's remarks on the last...
While "epics" to compare with such pictures as "The Big Parade," "The Covered Wagon," "The Thief of Bagdad," "Ben-Bur," and other monstrous productions will probably not be attempted for the present, the moviegoer is still justified in anticipating some excellent programs in the future...
...President's critics were right within the technicalities of the budget law, for during the last eight years Congress has shaved $413,000,000 off the economical estimates of the White House. Bur President Hoover, with a larger aspect of economy in mind, was really driving against initiation by Congress of new laws which create new expenses, against more farm relief, more veteran relief, more unemployment relief...
...believe I am the creator of the sobriquet 'Tiger' with a capital 'T' as applied to M. Clémenceau." said Editor Emile Buré of the Paris daily L'Avenor last week. "I am proud of the achievement! It will perhaps furnish the only chisel ever likely to cut my name in the granite of History...
Pressed for details, Editor Buré reminisced: "As far as I can recall, the incident took place in 1904. Clemenceau was then director of L'Aurore, and I was one of his editors. The caustic political sheet Le Gil Bias, which Mortier directed, published one day a very sarcastic attack on Clémenceau in which his character was described as being 'fierce as that of a tiger...