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...absence of the Chancellor, Vienna police in steel helmets and armed with rifles promptly swooped down on a dozen Socialist headquarters, occupied and guarded the offices of the Arbeiter Zeitung and announced that they had uncovered evidence of heinous plots and enough bombs to wreck a good section of the city. The Farmers' Party sent a vigorous protest which was promptly suppressed. When Chancellor Dollfuss reappeared in Vienna, he was ready at last to commit himself. Assured of French support (see p. 16), he boldly called the Socialists by their Heimwehr tag, "Marxist-Bolshevists," patted the Heimwehr...
...should every office sufficiently exalted to arrest the interest of a capable man, or well paid enough to support him, remain in the grab bag of our party soothsayers? Why should the honest ambition of those men in our civil service who are able, but are declassed in the heinous hierarchy of our parties, be stified by the knowledge that the tempting rungs have been filched from the ladder, and are distributed by the high mok-a-mok to his faithful chieftains? Why in short, do we prattle so happily of civil service reform as a fit accompli because...
...little play is becoming too much for him. The stands everywhere convicted; either as the devious promoter of an assistant Tammany ticket to break the anti-Tammany vote, or as the clumsy agent of the President's disgust with Tammany and his determination to set up a less heinous Democracy in New York. Both of these accusations cannot be true; indeed it is difficult to decide which of them is, but in any case the Secretary has bogged himself in an unpretty fashion, and must lose much of the political prestige which alone made him valuable...
...holiday followed, his reputation for astuteness was advanced. Later the students and faculty of the Business School were given to understand that Dr. Dewing had been given leave of absence to complete a great opus on corporation finance.When he resigned, Cambridge whispered that he had been fired for the heinous sin of gold hoarding...
...failure of the attempted assassination of President-elect Roosevelt at Miami last night will probably be reckoned, in years to come, as a most lucky accident in the country's history. Casting aside the heinous nature of the crime and the personalities involved, it was an attempt which, if successful, might well have proved a national tragedy. The activities of Franklin Roosevelt since November eighth have inspired a growing confidence in his abilities, even among the die-hard members of his political opponents. To rob the victorious party of its leadership, and to place command in the hands...