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Fame in the headlines and temporary paralysis were the coin of pay- ment received by Carbis A. Walker, Cleveland citizen, for swimming Lake Erie. He propelled himself 33 miles, some of the time in fog and rough water, in 20 hours and 15 minutes...
...debate was held on Lord Gorell's motion to have Britain join the U. S. in call-ing an international conference on air armament limitation. The debate was, however, interrupted by the Marquis of Salisbury, Lord President of the Council, who informed the House that, although the Govern-ment was desirous of cooperating with other countries, the discussion of air armaments was politically iinexpedient on account of the state of affairs on the continent. The motion was negatived without division...
...Miners' Federation of Great Britain: "There is real danger of war. The voice in Europe crying for peace is feeble. That voice is the voice of Great Britain and the Government is acting as a silencer of that voice. The time has come for the Govern- ment to declare in plain language it disapproves of French policy in the Ruhr...
...fantastic, urbane, ironic, witty, courteous, magical- -these stories, naturally, are the substance of the book-jade emblems strung on a cord of Chinese silver, emblems marked with enchanted characters. The Significance. Kai Lung's Golden Hours is not a book to read at a sitting with breathless excite ment-it is a book to be dipped into and laid aside and dipped into again, and always with pleasure and refreshment. It is also a book to keep -and a book that can be reread again and again, because it has that certain intangible felicity of manner about it that...
...Daudet's valiant efforts to fight the entire Chamber single-voiced, he was obliged to succumb to the superior yells from the Socialists. After a vote had been taken condemning the action of the Royalists, he walked out of the Chamber amid hoots. The attitude of the Govern-ment was that it would not tolerate attacks on individual liberty from any source. As proof of this the police are guarding Daudet's home...