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...reformers, and the Ku Klux Klan's fiery crosses burn under the walls of its abandoned distilleries. . . ." Enraged, fuming, two-fisted Governor W. J. Fields telegraphed the St. Louis paper: "Your vicious and unwarranted editorial attack upon Kentucky . . . indicates that you are either a liar or a fool, and I am inclined to believe that you are both." Paralyzed, the affair died...
...startling to behold the always opinionated but seldom unsophisticated New York World pitching into "Lampy" (as Harvards call their campus fool) like a Dutch uncle or beard-tweaked rabbi, belaboring the unimportantly obvious. "Now it becomes," said the World, "a painful duty...
...devoted to Lord Northcliffe.... I mothered him. I gave him advice when he needed it, and he gave me leave to pull him up and prevent his making a fool of himself.... I did that several times...
...Like a thunderclap had come the news that Albania and Italy had concluded a mutual accord (TIME, Dec. 13). A rumor spread that this treaty contained secret military clauses which would make Albania an Italian pistol pointed at Jugoslavia. Suspicion, fear, hate seethed. Evidently Foreign Minister Nintchitch was a fool. He had pursued a conciliatory policy toward Italy, he signed an accord with Rome last year; and now Signor Mussolini and President Zogu of Albania had both double-crossed him. He was a numskull? so raved the press of Belgrade. Down with...
Married. William T. Graham, 76, onetime President American Can Co.; onetime partner of Daniel G. Reid (tinplate); to Mrs. Mary A. Staats, 57, in Manhattan. Said he: "Perhaps you think I'm an old fool. I'd like to have my own home...