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...shale land charges against the Department of the Interior. When these charges appeared last month (TIME, Oct. 6) they were widely discounted as partisan campaign politics. When last fortnight Attorney General Mitchell, upon investigation, pronounced them "without merit or substance," they were left discredited in the Washington gutter for the Senate to nose into. But now, with President Hoover angrily denouncing them and their maker, they were suddenly brought back into sharp public focus...
...adopted, merely drafted with a view to making King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia the first Kaiser of a united Germany. To this proud Prussian King the rest of Germany seemed not worth much. "I will never stoop," said His Majesty, "to pick up a crown out of the gutter...
Despite Duke Borea d'Olmo centenarian zeal, the three royal special trains were an hour late in reaching Assisi; a thunderstorm burst; Princess Giovanna dropped her bridal bouquet into the gutter; Tsar Boris was soaked to the skin; during the ceremony tear after tear coursed down the cheeks of the bride...
...member of the French Garde Republicaine (special police) spied a pair of diamond earrings twinkling in a Paris gutter last week. He returned them through the Prefecture of Police to Mrs. Gates McGarrah, wife of the chairman of the new Bank for International (reparations) Settlements...
...Paris taxi driver noticed in another gutter last week a gold medal, returned it in the same way to U. S. Ambassador Walter Evans Edge. On his goodwill tour of French industrial cities Mr. Edge received the medal (commemorative) at Strassbourg, famed home town of pâté de foie gras (fat goose liver) a French delicacy greatly appreciated by most U. S. citizens...