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...Trust Guild of Chicago. Sir Samuel Chapman, M. P., and Lady Astor enacted, during a recess of the House, the respective roles of a mock-Speaker and a mock-Clydside Laborite extremist. "Attaboy!" shouted many a U. S. savant as the Right Honorable Lady refused to desist from her ex tempore harangue on War debts when called to order by "Speaker" Chapman. Eventually she subsided as her fellow M. P.'s trooped back into the House. Later the Speaker of the House testily announced that Sir Samuel had not actually committed the sacrilege of sitting in the Speaker...
...because the chief of the company was not entirely certain of his bearings, the room of the College Regent was chosen as the scene of the "fire". Not until this "fire" had been thoroughly extinguished by gallons of water directed through an open window did the furious pumpers desist, and only when the window was closed by the saturated occupant of the room, was the drill declared over...
...order that you may know what made me desist from reading your newsmagazine, let me tell you that in your issue of May 18, 1925, Page 2, in telling something about the Philippines, my country, you have incurred in inaccuracies. Such despective statements as "The old rebel Aguinaldo" and "the professional politicians such as Quezon, Osmena, Roxas" are not the news a Filipino...
...created by Congress. Its business was to investigate complaints made to it of alleged unfair practices in trade (misbranding of commodities, price-cutting to put competitors out of business, etc., etc.)-If it found the alleged practices to be true, it was to issue an order to cease and desist (similar to an injunction). The Commission was to have five members appointed by the President, confirmed by the Senate, serving terms of seven years each. Not more than three members may be of the same political party. President Wilson filled the Commission and, because of the long term of office...
...Having incited the mob to kill Vice Consul Imbrie; having disregarded the orders of Second Lieutenant Mustafa Khan and the noncommissioned officer, Mohammed Ali Khan, who three times ordered him to desist and pulled him out of the mob, and having nevertheless persisted in attacking...