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...been urging the inexpediency of the Cabinet's confiscatory oil and land program and its suppressive religious policy. A state financier of high ability, Big Pin Pani is also a shrewd political chameleon. He has served under more Presidents than any other Mexican adjusting, himself to the political hue of each, but retaining his reputation as an able administrator. Therefore no surprise was felt last week when it was announced that he would succeed Alfonso Reyes as Mexican Ambassador at Paris, and would be succeeded by Montes de Oca at the Finance Ministry. The surprise came when...
...what the police, the dress-suited detectives wanted to know. He had left, the doorman said, in a limousine. The law gave chase, to the limousine, to the charming youth, to the $10,000 bracelet of the doctor's wife which, vanishing from her arm, had caused the hue and cry. They found the limousine in front of a fine house. Thirty armed men forced their way in. "Please do not break anything," said the charming young man. He showed them ledgers filled with "donations" together with lists of the charities to which this money had been given...
Finally Sir Austen Chamberlain was hampered in making concessions by a curious hue and cry that British industry languishes while German workers are busy turning out "half-finished arms and arms parts" which are sold to Russia or shipped to Sweden for completion and thence to Russia, China, etc. It was a pat coincidence that the Foch report was sprung and the British "half-finished arms" scare was popped while Premier Poincare and Chancellor Churchill of the British Exchequer were hobnobbing together in Paris?for these statesmen both oppose the conciliatory attitude toward Germany of Premier Briand and Sir Austen...
...touches of spotless white, the whole toned down to harmony by the austere background of a white granite pile. Among the robe wearers were 40 university, college and seminary presidents, including two women, Mary E. Woolley (Mt. Holyoke), and Ellen F. Pendleton (Wellesley). In a gown a cardinal hue, symbol of University of Glasgow honors, was the Reverend Henry Sloane Coffin, D. D. (N. Y. U., Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, Glasgow), who was there to be inaugurated as President. Whence came he to this post of eminence and ecclesiastical danger...
...Worker's Weekly, that he was a citizen of the U. S., and that his distinguished War service had left him so crippled that he could "hardly hobble into the dock." Conservatives refused to believe that Sir Patrick had acted from motives of humanity and raised a hue and cry against the Government for pampering Communists" amid which the Cabinet was voted from power...