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Does the onetime Secretary of Agriculture deny that, as TIME stated, "For seven long years His Majesty played the role of British puppet with a certain grace. distracting himself with such harmless amusements as riding around & around the royal gardens at Alexandria on a white...
...Armenians were a harmless folk but they were an alien body within the Turkish body politic and when the years of starvation and oppression following 1870 failed to wipe them out the Turkish government resolved to utilize its strength as an ally of the Central Powers and to eliminate the Armenians completely from the picture. The Armenian villages were uprooted and the people pushed on a horror-filled march which led only to starvation, rape, murder and eventual death for all. Village by village the Armenians were driven into nothingness until the Ittihad pointed at the villages about the mountain...
Last week's crop of prophecies was the shortest in years. Five years of defeat, frustration and ridicule had taught businessmen to avoid mouth-filling generalities, to stick to harmless forecasts about their own industries. Samples...
...leaders came & went, the President's message was revised, policies for 1935 were thrashed out. Such all important questions as how the demands for immediate payment of the Bonus, for inflation, for the 30-hour week, for the Townsend plan could be blocked in Congress or held to harmless proportions were canvassed. And for once the Press & public were kept in ignorance not by a plethora of conflicting information but by a silence undefiled...
...little sectarian college, and he had an excellent tenor voice, but somehow people did not like George Brush. Although he practically never did a wrong thing he was always getting into trouble, including jail. But his high-principled sincerity usually convinced his detractors that he was crazy and comparatively harmless. George Brush flinched at no opportunities to put his principles to the test, even experimented with new ones (such as a 24-hour vow of silence) that landed him in really nasty messes...