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...need for tariff reductions is perfectly apparent. Since the end of the World War, the economic walls have been rising steadily, both here and abroad. Balkanized Europe is a house divided against itself into scores of increasingly high partitions. England, which has previously been the citadel of Free Trade, has surrendered the position and taken to building an Empire preference unit. And the disease is as cumulative a one as the matter of armaments. If France raises her import or export duties, the other countries feel compelled to follow suit. Faced by such absurd but deliberate attempts to destroy...
...great respecter of Reds is Sir Esmond Ovey, British Ambassador to Moscow. In the Soviet citadel his Embassy flaunts life-size oil paintings of King George & Queen Mary in their coronation robes. In Moscow the Ambassador's young men never hesitate to express on Communism, its leaders and practices, opinions which would cause instant arrest for any but a foreign diplomat. Britons are not popular in Moscow...
...line gave little protection to deGive in the goal. Cookman, Yale substitute wingman, crashed through with the equalizer out of a mix-up in front of the Harvard net when the clocks said 6.45. Not content at a tie count the Elis kept up the battering of the Harvard citadel, and after several Yale shots had hit the posts Fletcher took a pass from Noyes that lured deGive out of the cage and converted in the time...
...journals cover the same subject, the siege of the citadel, but some record different events in the siege, or do not begin at the same dates. Merely a notation of the happenings of the war, little in the way of a story book may be expected from the diaries; but to the student of colonial history they afford a wealth of material in factual form. Deaths seem to occupy large portions of each day's entries and it is interesting to note that many of the wounds resulted from explosions of the colonists' own cannon, so inexperienced were the militia...
...fifth. No book on Chicago gangland is complete without the story of the O'Donnell brothers (WestSide) three-cornered fight with the North and South Siders. Klondike's Brother Myles and notorious Assistant State's Attorney William McSwiggin, both now dead, shot up the Capone citadel in Cicero in 1925. Of the remaining 35 public enemies, only Frank Diamond, no relation to Manhattan's late little criminal clay pigeon "Legs," is important and at the same time somewhat obscure to newspaper readers. He runs speakeasies and resorts...