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...daring to present the word officially at a Downing St. meeting, Premier Hertzog slyly let the word leak to the Press that his Dominion would recommend that the independent Republic of Liberia be seized by force if necessary and handed over to Germany as a League of Nations mandate. Further, according to Premier Hertzog, the Union of South Africa would hand her mandate of Southwest Africa back to Germany also and would recommend that Tanganyika (formerly German East Africa) be given back to Germany as well...
Said Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in a radio broadcast, of her troubles in keeping the White House: "Pipes will leak at frequent intervals and rats and mice like old buildings, regardless of tradition. Two friends of mine, sitting on the South Porch at breakfast one summer morning, tried to reassure themselves that a squirrel ran across the floor and refused to admit until they were safely upstairs that they had seen a large...
...years as official pumper of the Appleton Chapel organ gave him a good deal of anxiety for fear that the old bellows would leak faster than he could pump. "Many a drop of sweat I left in that old tower," he used to tell his grandchildren...
...bootleg liquor, made 1,583 arrests. Coast Guard cutters were trailing six rum-running ships. Enough evidence had been gathered to hold more than 500 big-time criminals for income tax evasion. Only one Federal agent, in Leesville, Va., had been seriously wounded. Only one "leak" had been discovered-a telephoned tip-off to a Boston opium...
Twenty-four hours later, the onetime Secretary of the Treasury broke off his grouse shooting at his lodge in Perthshire, Scotland long enough to deny the Moscow-Riga-Paris-U. S. news leak in the following words: "I have not bought the Alba Madonna or any other Soviet art. This story has cropped up recurrently for the past three years. Each time I have denied...