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Maximovitch Litvinov, who three weeks ago indignantly refused British Ambassador Sir Esmond Ovey's curt demand that the British engineers be released instantly and without trial...
...cuppa coffee Mister?" which of these poor wretches are deserving are merely down on their luck, and which are moochers, beggars pure and simple, the casual passerby can hardly determine. If that casual passerby have any of the elements of humanity in him he cannot give all a curt refusal, and if he be a worldly passerby he will shrink from trusting them with nothing more than the address of an already harassed and bankrupt charity. The obligation exacted by hungry eyes and haggard faces is more immediate than that...
Railroader Willard, who usually brushes through the press cordon in the White House lobby with a curt "nothing-to-say," paused to reply...
After two hours the Red Room door swung open and Secretary Mills and Professor Moley walked out. For ten minutes the 31st and 32nd Presidents were left alone in private conversation. Then while the White House secretariat was issuing a curt communique reporting "progress," Governor Roosevelt drove to the Mayflower Hotel. There he ordered and consumed tea & cinnamon toast while dressing to dine with the Washington correspondents at the National Press Club...
...lawyers. A Canadian warrant for his arrest had been issued, he was advised to surrender. At 9:30 p. m. he gave himself up to the Canadian police in the small town of Barrie, Ont. There was a brief hearing before a judge as lank, as gaunt, as curt as he. And then, through a driving rain, he was driven to jail...