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...Franz Josef. Among the field pieces which clattered Eugen, many were seen to exceed the 5.5 inch calibre to which Austria is limited by the Treaty of St. Germain. The big surprise to most Austrians, who thought they possessed no treaty-banned battle planes, came when 15 big bombers oi the latest type suddenly thundered into view circled and dipped in salute to Imperial Eugen...
...Eighteen months!" shouted the landlord. "Eighteen months I let her live in my house because I thought her mighty brother would do what a brother should. Oi, oi, eighteen months...
Once before this year the Stavisky investigation harked back to the great scandal of 1914 which only the outbreak oi the World War wiped off the world's front pages. Last month Henri Rochette a swindler like Stavisky, who, more than a generation ago, bribed his way into high government immunity, cut his throat before his judges in a Paris courtroom and died just after they had sentenced him to three years in jail (TIME, April 16). Complicity in the Rochette scandal was largely the reason for the bitter press campaign which Gaston Calmette, editor of Le Figaro waged...
...Catherine monks showed him some, refused to part with them. Scholar Tischendorf took home what he had, published it as the Codex Friderico-Augustanus for his patron, King Frederick Augustus of Saxony. He returned twice to Sinai, the second time under the patronage of Tsar Alexander II Oi Russia. He was shown more manuscript, including the Epistle of Barnabas which was not previously known to exist in Greek. This he spent a whole night frantically copying, exclaiming, "It is a crime to sleep!" Before long he had induced the St. Catherine monks to give the manuscript to the Tsar...
...being inaccurate, critical, conjectural. Editor True, whose criticism of NRA has been even more lively, made public a letter he had received from General Johnson which said: "Your last Industrial Control Report is full of misinformation and sabotage . . . statements without foundation ... in one case distinctly libelous. ... In view oi this fact you will not be welcomed at any more press conferences...