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Smacking down his fist the Premier concluded: "I will make no attempt to apportion the blame for the stubbornness and folly which have resulted in the continuance of this strike. ... I have laid before the House the steps which the government proposes to take whether a settlement between the miners and owners is reached...
Thrusting his point, Colonel Woods told that information of an expected drug shipment from one country to another now passes through such decorously deliberate diplomatic channels that the drug-running ship often outstrips by several weeks the information which would make possible its seizure. Smacking down his fist the Colonel cried: "Direct international police communication by cable would result in the seizure of almost all drug shipments...
...suppression of his enemies. Within a year he has drawn the discipline of Fascismo as tight as a drumhead. He has "governed by castor oil"?introduced into anti-Fascist throats while anti-Fascist noses were roughly tweaked by Farinacci's Selvaggi ("Savages"). He has earned the title "Right Fist of the Fascist Party." He has been denounced by Cardinal Gasparri as a "vulgar demagog." None the less, Mussolini had him made a lawyer so that he might defend the slayers of Matteotti (TIME, March 22). The rude mechanic from Abruzzi secured the virtual whitewashing of his clients from...
Pounding with clenched fist, Dr. Stresemann shouted back: "I will not stand for such impertinence!" Recovering his usual calm, he concluded : "We are glad that the standpoint of all the powers concerned was that the Locarno policy must be continued...
Deputies of the Imperial Diet hurled Gargantuan phonetic sequences at one another in a loud and angry tone. In the galleries, fist fights were of frequent occurrence. The Kensei-kai and the Seiyu-kai (chief political parties) were at it again, with the Seiyu-honto alternately baiting and encouraging both. There was drawing to a close perhaps the stormiest session of the Imperial Diet in many years. Reijiro Wakatsuki. Above the squabbling undersized Deputies towered an old man, six feet in his stockings, who is still the amateur jiu-jitsu champion of Japan despite his 60 years. As a schoolboy...