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Amid a chorus of "hear, hear!" the exalted Economist of St. James's strongly advised promoters of travel in Britain to avail themselves of latest advertising methods, declared that the Empire must "raise its voice louder & louder." With a likable grin he raised his own voice louder & louder as...
In Addis Ababa two Sundays ago the Abuna, "Father of Peace" to the Coptic Christians of Ethiopia, donned a black cassock, long cape and purple cap. As nominal head of the Church, Emperor Haile Selassie arose early, stepped into his automobile which took him up a hill to the octagonal...
Such were Franklin Roosevelt's most notable doings and concerns of 1934. They brought him in touch with as many kinds of men as there are in the old jingle:
The jingle might go on indefinitely, with Senator David Reed whose scalp was the biggest snagged by Franklin Roosevelt in the election, with Schoolman William A. Wirt who found a Red conspiracy in the Brain Trust; with Banker Jackson Eli Reynolds who made peace between financiers and the White House...
Dickens began to write sketches of London life, signed them with the pen-name 'Boz." The sketches were so popular that the proprietors of the Morning Chronicle regarded him with an increasingly kindly eye. One of them, who had three daughters, was glad to bestow his eldest, Catherine, on...