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...took her case on appeal up to the U. S. Supreme Court. The appeal was rejected in a decision which established the constitutionality of the Criminal Syndicalism Act. In 1927, after a storm of appeals from famed sympathizers, Governor Clement Calhoun Young gave Anita Whitney a pardon. To the chagrin of many a sympathizer, most of whom were mild liberals, Anita Whitney promptly marched back to the Communist battle line as an orthodox Stalinite. In the election which led to her arrest, she polled over 100,000 votes as her Party's candidate for State Comptroller. Considered their...
...that there was no need to heighten the British-Italian tension by making an issue of visiting a country where his parents' bodies lie. Dictator Kondylis had naturally assumed that his King would communicate with Greece only through the Greek Minister to Great Britain. He discovered to his chagrin that George II was exchanging cables privately with the head of another group of Greek Royalists who want parliamentary government instead of Kondylis' Dictatorship. They are headed by onetime Premier Panayoti Tsaldaris. Last week in Athens a frequent caller at Tsaldaris' house was Britain's Minister...
...distrustful of newshawks in general. President Hoover put Pundit Sullivan in his "Medicine Ball Cabinet," had him to breakfasts, took him on fishing trips,* called him often to the White House for long, confidential talks. Result was that Mark Sullivan became, to other Washington correspondents' envy and chagrin, an authoritative Administration spokesman in his own right. Pundit Sullivan sometimes differed with the President in private, never in his dispatches. The Hoover Administration gave him, temporarily, an excessive fame and influence, fixed him firmly in the public mind as a biased political observer...
...With Captain Eden as ringmaster, Nov. 18 was set as the date on which all League States will apply such of the proposed sanctions against Italy as their governments have ratified by that time. Most of the sanctions seemed likely to be applied by most League States. To the chagrin of loyal Leaguophiles, famed "Proposal No. 5," the only active Proposal, under which League States would assist each other to compensate for losses incurred through application of sanctions, had not been ratified last week by Britain. In a love feast of honeyed speeches the 52 nations which voted last week...
...traveling salesman, a farmer and a Negro waiter named George W. Fullerton. Among the defendants, the jurors observed President Ned Depinet of RKO Distributing Corp., President George Schaefer of Paramount Pictures Distributing Co. and Warner Brothers' sleek little President Harry Warner who found it hard to conceal his chagrin when excited Lawyer Reed mistook his hat, which had fallen on the floor, for a spittoon, used it accordingly...