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...number of the eminent gentlemen, whose attendance at the Williamstown Conference has been noted above, were also present at the Conference of the Institute of International Politics at Chicago, where birds of another feather flocked together. Some of the steady and conscientious who recently addressed the gathering in the Windy City were: Dr. Herbert Kraus, Professor of International Law at KÖnigsberg University; Dr. Charles de Visscher, Professor of International Law at Ghent University; Sir Valentine Chirol (see above...
...eyes gleamed down his firm nose, his moustache bristled. He had been running a couple of farms near Lincoln. Then he decided to run Lincoln. He first became Councilman, next Mayor. He set up a municipal coal pile and brought down coal prices. That coal pile was a feather...
...neither one nor the other of these plans did they succeed and, after being made to feel by both France and Britain that they had outstayed their welcome, they were forced to return empty-handed to Bucharest. The Bratiano brothers stuck another feather in their caps by having the Mineral Rights Bill passed by both Houses of Parliament...
Public utilities and railroads are in high feather; their stocks are rising steadily in Wall Street; they are planning elaborate and significant mergers. But industrial concerns are very much in the trough of depression, as conditions in the basic and typical steel and iron industry go to show...
Every boxer worthy of the name, be he the weight of a feather or as beefy as a bull, has a famed right, a famed left, or a famed uppercut or something famed...