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...deficit. When the long tour ends in May, the Admiral, who, while changing trains in his blue uniform has sometimes been taken for a porter or stationmaster, will have told 1,250,000 people in 250 cities about the South Pole. It was during a lull in this tour that Hero Byrd again thought of peace. He publicly promised last summer to "start my work for international amity." Three months ago he wrote a letter to Nicholas Murray Butler urging a six months' "moratorium" on war, soon thereafter accepting Mrs. Roosevelt's invitation to open the No Foreign...
...mounted officers charged into the crowd with nightsticks swinging. At that, Detroit's sympathy began swinging back to the strikers, and United Automobile Workers' young President Homer Martin seized the occasion to threaten a city-wide general automobile strike unless the police raids stopped. After a weekend lull, police evicted sit-downers in a printing plant, a W. P. A. station. Labor and the Law moved toward a showdown as Detroit's City Council unanimously refused the automobile union's request for permission to stage a huge mass meeting in Cadillac Square, and Homer Martin blustered...
Glenn Frank left the editorship of Century magazine for the presidency of the University of Wisconsin in September 1925. That month marked a momentary lull in La Follette Progressivism in Wisconsin. Republican John J. Elaine was Governor, old "Bob" was dead after running a poor third for President the year before, "Young Bob" was being eased into his father's Senate seat, Brother Philip was district attorney of Dane county. Old Bob had peered amiably on occasion into the University but when the Republican and Progressive regents got together to elect Editor Frank, then an eloquent young Republican liberal...
...last week's lull between the opening cannonades of the great Word War of 1936, disgruntled Democratic veterans and guerrilla chieftains made news maneuvering in the political No Man's Land between Republican and Democratic trenches...
Lean, birdlike Mrs. Anthony Eden made one of her extremely rare public appearances last week. To the members of the Conservative Women's Society, the wife of Britain's Foreign Minister declared: "I find myself with a husband who is working 16 hours a day. A lull in all the hurly-burly of international politics would be very welcome to me for it has made a diplomacy widow...