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...movement succeeds we shall erect a people's tribunal before which the November criminals of 1918* shall expiate their crime and I frankly predict you shall then see their heads rolling in the sand...
...Geneva. In pulpit tones, measured, slow and once or twice ringingly fervent, Mr. Henderson made last week the speech of his life, successfully courted fame by demanding that the League act to achieve Disarmament, cease piddling about "Security," the Frenchified nebulosity upon which M. Briand is trying to erect his famed "United States of Europe" (TIME, Sept...
Because he likes to speak in paradoxes, smiling Lord Melchett next informed the Bond Club that Britain, in preparing to erect a tariff wall around her Empire, is really seeking the benefits of free trade. "We are beginning to think along the lines of economic units the size of the United States," said he. "Your vast continent, stretching from the Atlantic to San Francisco, presents the greatest free trade area in the world. ... It owes its great prosperity not to tariffs but to its great free trade area! . . . That is something which has been overlooked in America...
...trot honors went to a mother & son, Mrs. Anna L. Keenan and Walter Keenan of Philadelphia, who described it as "a sort of Rudy Vallee foxtrot. . . . And don't call it the 'Varsity Drag,' please. It's the University, and a very dignified dance." Principal features are an erect body bent slightly forward and the slow drag of the feet from back to front after each step. Collegiate jiggers will dance it with a slight bend of the knee. Conservatives will do it with more dignity, legs straight...
...spite of the denial, Welt am Abend (Communist organ) persisted in circulating as valid news coming "from a highly placed authority" the report that Old Paul was secretly forming a militaristic cabal, which would permanently dissolve the Reichstag, erect a formal dictatorship...