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...Soviet Russia to enter the League of Nations.** Strongly urging this, Sir John cried to the House of Commons: "Which do you prefer, this immense power [Russia] inside or outside the collective system of the League?" He then took a remarkable poke at League-Quitter Japan: "I neither wish to proclaim Japan the King's enemy nor Soviet Russia as my special friend! . . . Certainly we are prepared to welcome Russia warmly to the League of Nations if Russia makes application. We are satisfied it will contribute to the peace of the world...
Grey, gangling Governor William Henry ("Cocklebur Bill") Murray, by law prevented from succeeding himself, staked his political poke on Tom Anglin, Speaker of the State House of Representatives...
...Sweet Marie along for company. Folks around Fort Yukon learned that they had made a fairly good strike. Then word came in that the prospectors had fallen to quarreling. Next thing heard was that Tom Jensen had killed Adams, Holmberg and the Schmidt woman and run off with a poke worth some...
...Jilson Setters has earned wide publicity for Miss Thomas' folksong society. When he arrived in Manhattan to sail his bag gage consisted of one extra shirt, a quilt his grandmother had made, a gourd for a drinking cup, a corncob pipe and his fiddle wrapped in an oilcloth poke. He came, he said, from Lost Hope Hollow and he was going to see the King. Ashlanders have since said that there is no such place as Lost Hope Hollow, that Jilson Setters' real name is William Day. never much of a mountaineer, but an oldtime beggar...
...immersion but in strict Biblical interpretation, passive resistance to force, rigid avoidance of tobacco, spirits, musical instruments and, until recently, electricity, automobiles and telephones. Last week on the Brubaker Farm near Eaton, Ohio gathered 8,000 Dunkers, the men in black coats and broad-brimmed hats, the women in poke bonnets and long capes. Watched by 12,000 spectators, they held mass communion in a big tent, first washing their feet, then sitting at long tables to break bread and pass the wine goblet from hand to hand. By the tenets of their faith, sinful Dunkers refrained from partaking. Later...