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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prince Potenziani, Mayor Walker made a speech which he began with witticism that had served him so well in Venice (see above). His words were: "This is the best punch I've ever drunk." When Prince Potenziani expressed his pleasure at entertaining "the chief magistrate of the greatest city in the world, of that fabulous city of incomparable development in which Anglo-Saxon energy with untiring activity has translated into actual fact the boldest conceptions of human thought ..." Mayor replied, "Prince, if you said what I think you said, I'm grateful." Also the Mayor remarked...
...preliminary to tossing the Thomp- son hat into the presidential ring. Despite President Coolidge's adamant refusal to call a special session of Congress to deal with the flood emergency and his veto of the McNary-Haugen Bill (farm relief). Mayor Thompson hailed him as one of the greatest friends of the Mississippi Valley in the White House. Of onetime Governor Lowden he said: "There's a man who says he wants to be President. He does not state any principles or stand four-square." He added: "My grandfather put up the first $25,000 for Pullman...
...Paris thought only of the legionnaires. It was as if Parisians had reserved the gay city for les braves garcons. What other U. S. citizens did, what they thought, where they went was no one's business, whereas making the welcome to the American Legion the greatest that the city has ever accorded was everybody's business...
...Gases. Has science invented any gas with which bombing planes could annihilate a whole community? Certainly not, said Major General Amos Alfred Fries, chief of the U. S. Army Chemical Warfare Service. Another popular fallacy: that gas wounds form the basis of later disease. Yet gas is the greatest casualty-pro-ducer in war, Soldier Fries explained, because its victims require from two to three persons each to care for them, "while statistics show that one man can dispose of two fatal casualties. . . . Wounded men are many times more a burden than the dead. Gas is the only instrument...
Inge predicted, in the London Evening Standard, that in 2000 A. D. a federation of Latin American republics and the U. S. would constitute the two greatest world powers, European states-save possibly Russia-becoming "relatively unimportant...