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...sonnet: This man was King in England's direst need; In the black-battled years when hope was gone, His courage was a flag men rallied on; His steadfast spirit shewed him King indeed. And when the war was ended, when the thought Of revolution took its hideous place, His courage and his kindness and his grace Scattered {or charmed) its ministers to naught. No King, of all our many, has been proved By time so savage to the thrones of kings Nor won more simple triumph over fate. He was most royal among royal things, Most thoughtful...
...China now is in the direst danger. The militarists of Tokyo will take advantage of the opportunity to advance farther into North China...
...March 6 nearly a billion dollars in gold had flowed back to the Treasury but some $700,000,000 was still in hiding. Some of this had fled abroad; some of it had been lost: much of it was in the hands of well-to-do citizens from whom direst threats of prosecution could not blast it loose. Their position had able supporters. Senator Glass did not think the Government had the legal authority to force a citizen to give up his lawfully acquired property. Senator Borah had openly declared: "If I had $5,000 in gold I would defy...
...Never rich, it was the fate of General Diaz to die possessed of almost nothing except a small house in Naples which was presented to him by popular subscription after the War. The house he left to his son, last week, bidding him not to sell it except in direst need. Such was the last request of one whom Italy created Duca della Victoria (Duke of Victory) and who chose for himself the motto: "Better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep...
...direst opponents of the McNary-Haugen Bill are opponents of all government-going-into-business schemes. The biggest farmer in the world is Thomas D. Campbell of Montana. As an important example he is vital to any farm discussion. He says, in effect, that the very idea of "a farmer" is obsolescent foolishness, that he ought to be put in a museum along with the dodo and the cobbler and the individual candlestick maker...