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...Peace in Principle," Very slowly meanwhile in France last week Le Peuple Souverain in numberless factories and shops were making what they called peace "in principle" with their employers. In the big Paris hotels guests found that, although the hotel workers' strike had been settled in principle, the hotel workers were in most cases still playing cards or dominoes while exact details of the terms on which they fully intended to resume work were being drawn up, much as the families of a French bride and groom haggle over the marriage settlement while the engaged couple are only...
...part of the world where white men can readily afford to execute one another. In all that wet island jungle, whose northeastern, German segment was put under Australian mandate at the end of the War, there are some 4,000 whites scattered among 700,000 blacks and numberless pigs, rats, butterflies and birds of paradise. Until last week the ruling Britons had hanged some 45 black men, not one white. But the elderly German gold prospector, Ludwig Schmidt, had gone...
Dearest, the shadows I live with are numberless...
...behalf of numberless admirers and friends of Senator Long and as the father of James O'Connor Jr., I protest against the use of a word which today carries a sinister significance. Neither James O'Connor Jr., nor any of the many friends and champions and advocates of Huey P. Long's policies were ever regarded by him as "henchmen." He looked upon them as devoted friends who were doing their utmost to aid him in his struggle to prevent the accumulation of great wealth in the hands of a relatively few and for its redistribution among the masses...
Distressed by the fact that the disappearance of hardy grass from the U. S. great plains was releasing numberless tons of soil on the wind and making vast reaches of new desert, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace last spring sent an expedition to the Gobi Desert where, he knew, were sturdy grasses which could outlive extremes of cold and heat and drought. Expedition leader was bald, goat-bearded Nicholas Konstantinovich Roerich, painter, mystic, founder of Manhattan's Roerich Museum, habitué of Central Asia (TIME...