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Almost a decade ago the Chicago Tribune, self-styled "World's Greatest Newspaper," ordered its correspondent in Moscow to present the following ultimatum to Soviet Foreign Minister Georg Tchitcherin: "You must abandon your censorship and guarantee freedom of expression, otherwise our correspondent will be withdrawn and so will the...
Of course it was all in vain. President Herbert Hoover had long since cast his sympathies against the rebels and on the side of squarejawed, gnarled-fisted President of Mexico Senor Emilio Portes Gil. Just to make assurance doubly ironclad, Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg told correspondents that "under...
"American Methods!" Such was the glamorous slogan wherewith Swindleress Hanau dazzled and duped tight-fisted rural Frenchmen and took away their francs.
* i.e. "Tight Fisted Peasants"-"Fists" being Bolshevik slang for Kulaks.
As every Chicagoan knows, Banker Traylor sprang from a strain of Kentucky mountaineers and matured in a two-fisted town in Texas. Psychologists, pondering heredity and environment, are not surprised to find him, at 50, ready and able to oppose Benjamin Strong, scion of a long line of publicists and...