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...Vice President). Fortnight ago he arrived at their low, shrub-bowered home behind its stone wall. His cold got no better. It went into his chest. Early last week doctors were called in, and put the Speaker into bed as a pneumonia patient. The pneumonia was dread Type...
...Ohio State Penitentiary at Columbus. They had been asphyxiated or roasted to death in the nation's most grisly prison holocaust (TIME, April 28). A hundred feet away from the lawn is the institution's death house, where felons are mortally burned in another fashion. To this dread place, last week, two inmates serving long terms for robbery begged to be sent speedily. These two convicts were known as Clinton ("Cotton") Grate and Hugh Gibbons. They confessed to firing the prison in the hope of effecting a wholesale delivery...
...forefront in the news of the world the Vagabond feels that he would do well to polish up a bit on the historical background of the present controversy. He can see in the unseemly haste which France has displayed in protesting the new agreement a recurrence of that dread of German power which she felt so acutely prior to 1914. Perhaps that dread was not unbased. The Vagabond proposes to hear Professor Artz discuss the last years of the heyday of German Imperialism this morning. The place is Harvard 1, and the time twelve o'clock...
History has no doubt taught France to dread the consequences of a German Zollverein, but in this instance France seems to be taking an unreasonable view of the matter, unwarranted by the actual facts. Austria and Germany have been forced to take this step from economic necessity, created by the World War, which left Austria with practically no resources and Germany little better off. As long as the participants are bound by the restrictions imposed by the allies in the peace treaties, the union can not be politically aggressive. For France can always check the actual union...
...After the 1930 classes of Italian and French cruisers are completed, neither nation will build destroyers of more than 6.1-inch gun calibre, but France and Italy will each build two "Pocket Dread-naughts" of 23,333 tons, copying in this respect the famed German Ersatz Preussen (TIME, Nov. 26, 1928), hailed by naval experts as the world's most efficient small war boat...