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...extremely tactless," said Lord Marley, "for the British Government to make a payment and then say it was not a payment under the old agreement. . . . America should now hold out a carrot to the European donkey, promising [debt] cancellation if America's demands for disarmament are carried...
...Mackay Christmas tree in Roslyn, L. I., that she had renounced a $4,000 contract. Her Roxy program, she said, had been all arranged. She had planned to sing Christmas carols against a background representing the Nativity. She had even discussed details with the management, decided to use a donkey, dismissed the idea of including a cow. The Roxy management, threatened with suit, admitted that it had been mistaken about Mrs. Mackay's indisposition. Receiver Howard S. Cullman, new at his job, said that his predecessor, Harry G. Kosch, had drawn up (but not signed) the contract which...
STEVENSON (Robert Louis) Travels With a Donkey in the Cevennes. First Edition with illustrations by Noel Rooke...
Josephus Daniels began a private campaign to change the Democratic party emblem by printing a crowing rooster on the front page of his Raleigh. N. C. News and Observer. Observed he: "The rooster has ten times more style and beauty and clarion call than the donkey...
...campaign strategy. Most White House callers were G. O. Partisans with words of advice, good cheer or hope. Eva and Danny, two elephants borrowed from a Washington theatre, lumbered on to the White House lawn bearing a sign: "This is an elephant's job-No time for donkey business...