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...plot against America has been detected. Henry Cashman, member of the Wisconsin University Board of Regents and the State Legislature, declared to the Regents last week that a grave peril is being courted by any State which sends Rhodes scholars to Oxford. "The object of Rhodes scholarships is to extend British rule and ultimately to recover the United States. This scheme makes traitors of some of America's finest young men!" No action was taken by the Board. But some patriot somewhere, who does not know how incurably American the Rhodes scholars are considered at Oxford...
...sections. But the enterprise of New York taxi magnates is not confined to the narrow limits of Manhattan. One of them proposes to speed up London traffic with a shipment of five hundred yellow cabs, and the London press has had no end of fun discussing the impending "yellow peril...
Lord Balfour, veteran, said that the Tory Party was in peril. In his inimitable and pedantic style he said: " I look forward certainly not without hope-but not without anxiety- to the result of the election...
...arrival of the yellow taxi-peril in London...
...political situation in Britain was described as one of extreme peril for the Baldwin Ministry. Mr. Baldwin is generally thought to have been a failure by sections of the press, including certain of the Conservative journals, which reflect, to some extent, the attitude of the House. The reasons upon which criticism is based are that the Premier has conspicuously failed in the conduct of foreign policy and in proposing any fundamental palliative to the unemployment problem...