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...appoint governors-general and governors much as he pleased, but George V has been forced to bow more & more to local sentiment, notably when His Majesty was forced to appoint Sir Isaac Isaacs, "a man he had never seen," to be Governor General of Australia. For a governor to dismiss a premier is unusual but not unprecedented. Two Premiers of Quebec have been dismissed by their Governor...
...Embassy protested to the German Foreign Office. Last week steam from the Berlin teapot reached the U. S. The pet puppy metamor was headlined in the news, vigorously attacked. People who remembered the circumstances of Herr Furtwangler's New York Philharmonic engagement were inclined to dismiss his statement as a case of wounded vanity. His first U. S. concerts (1924-25) were brilliant. But after Toscanini came he let himself be heckled by adverse press criticism, lost his confidence, his force. At the end of his 1926-27 engagement he was not invited to return for the next season...
...campaign, the Seattle electorate was hardly more than one enormous jury to be swayed back & forth by courtroom oratory. Besides unhinging his office door, to fulfill his countless campaign pledges Mayor Dore must also cut all city salaries over $3,000, including his own, must dismiss the superintendent of the city-owned street railway system and, like Theodore Roosevelt two generations ago in New York City, must prowl the streets in disguise after dark to see if the police are properly beating their beats...
...free list, is owned by Oklahoma's Governor William Henry Murray, his wife Alice, his cousin Cicero. In answer to the widespread charge that Murraymen capitalize on it; owners' official position to solicit advertising and subscriptions, Governor Murray has announced that he would dismiss any employe so doing. Many a Blue Valley Farmer advertiser reports satisfaction with results...
...papers bewailed the fact that so much money had to be spent on the army of pressmen sent to Hopewell to "satisfy the American craving for news." The kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby few will deny is news in the full sense of the word but few will also dismiss the fact that the tremendous publicity has hindered rather than hastened the return of the child...