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...public career of Heinrich Langkopf began in Berlin last week, when, with a stout tin box under his arm, he called at the office of Privy Councilor Hugo Bach. Arriving early, he was kept waiting until a few minutes after noon. Ushered in at last by a page who discreetly retired, he approached the desk of Privy Councilor Bach, placed the tin box upon it, and spoke crisply: "I have here 15 pounds of high explosives. Unless you are willing to give me 112,000 marks, in cash, for reasons which I shall explain, this building will be blown...
...Privy Councilor Bach, with cool presence of mind, reached for and lit a cigaret. Leaning back in his swivel chair, he puffed a moment, then quietly remarked, "I will hear your explanation...
...personal secretary to Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg. He fought in the War, being badly wounded. Following Germany's Revolution, he helped found the Democratic Club in Berlin but did not leave diplomacy for politics. The rise of Germany's new democracy sent him to Rome as first councilor of the Embassy, where his firm amiability in-clined many a Fascist to a friendlier view of German republicanism. Leaving Italy for the U. S., he rose at a banquet given him by his Roman friends to talk about the "understanding" he hoped to promote in Washington. "My house there...
...office is the fact that he has held his post, for better or worse, a whole decade. At one time h eattefpted to exterminate mosquitoes, thereby endearing himself to the populace. Shea and Robart gain Harvard's attention by placing their campaign headquarters at either end of the yard. Councilor Russell is a Harvard man and the son of former Governor Russell, one of Massachusetts' few Democratic chief magistrates...
...still more sorry that women have been admitted to juries. The plain fact is that men and women cannot be brought together in association without either attracting one another or irritating one another." Thus, last week, wrote that most respected bachelor, Lord Hugh Cecil, 57, Conservative M. P., Privy Councilor, LL.D., High Churchman, War-time Lieutenant of the Royal Flying Corps...