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...sickle of Communism (see p. 18). The mob had gathered from the eastern Danish islands, where little farms are thickest, to demand that Premier Theodore Stauning lower farm taxes, raise farm prices, declare a farm mortgage moratorium and dismiss politicians from the Government's agricultural bureaus. In a huff the Premier refused to see the farmers' delegates. Thereupon the whole 50,000 surged to the Royal Palace...
...historic occasion. In 1928 Mr. Lowden was Herbert Hoover's chief rival for the Republican nomination. When the party platform at Kansas City went rankly reactionary, the progressive son-in-law of the late George Pullman (sleeping cars) withdrew in a huff, left the convention delegates with but one answer to the question "Who but Hoover?" Last week Mr. Lowden, 74. was no longer a candidate but his work and words were still an important factor in Midwestern Republicanism. And furthermore he was about to be the chief speaker at a great Republican rally at Springfield, Ill. Mr. Hoover...
...Parliament. Last week Arch-Prohibitor Edwin Scrymgeour, who lost his seat in 1931, sat morosely in his Dundee home. Prohibition as a political cause was just about dead in the realm of His Majesty George V, a great whiskey connoisseur. With Bitter-Ender Scrymgeour absent in a huff, the British Prohibition Party had caucused in Dundee for the last time, dissolved...
After the parade Lord Bessborough refused to sign the distinguished visitors' book at Toronto's Old Fort, departed in a huff...
...huff last autumn. Professor Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague resigned as money adviser to the Treasury. Since then he has returned to his chair at the Harvard Business School, has been retained as foreign exchange and trade adviser to General Motors Export Co. and has attempted to create "an aroused and organized public opinion," which he said was the only "defense from a drift into unrestrained inflation." Most conservative businessmen regarded him as their best friend and stoutest ally. Last week they were shocked and startled when Professor Sprague turned around and let fly at them because they "were not ready...