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...stronger than any other in Europe!!!" Tidying up after Hitler, professional diplomats of the Wilhelmstrasse attempted to be smooth. Germany, they said, might enter an air pact with Britain, provided no other country was admitted. Such a proposal was an example of the classic German diplomatic chess move: "Insert a wedge between Britain and France whenever possible...
...touches which the great authors have included in their works. Dickens knew that cheating at dice would be a great discredit to the witness in the minds of the Old Bailey jury but the director had to change the line to stealing a silver tea pot so as to insert a feeble witticism about its being plated anyway. Fortunately such departures are rare...
Section 1. Chapter seventy-one of the General Laws is hereby amended in inserting after section thirty, as appearing in the Tercentenary Edition, the following new section:--Section 30A. Every citizen of the United States entering service, on or after October first, nineteen hundred and thirty-five, as professor, instructor or teacher at any college, university, teachers' college, or public or private school, in the commonwealth shall, before entering upon the discharge of his duties, take and subscribe to, before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths, or, in case of a public school teacher, before the superintendent...
...Freshman yearbook has always been published in May. It has been the custom to include in it the history of the class, its social life, and its athletic prowess. In order to insert this data it has been necessary to make a charge of five dollars to all prospective purchasers...
...silver policy. But we haven't any ? other than to buy silver at the lowest possible price." Next day Senator Thomas and his silver friend, Senator McCarran of Nevada, took their revenge. As the price of passing the tax bill (see p. 17) they got the Senate to insert a provision repealing: 1) the Treasury's authority to nationalize silver; 2) the tax of 50% on the profits of silver speculators; 3) the requirement that Government licenses must be secured to import or export silver. The effect of these laws enacted in 1934 was to pre vent speculation...