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...exception to the category was young Greville. Vacationing from arduous if undefined politico-humanitarian labors, he offered Octavia stimulating relief from the world of hounds and their masters. Relief developed quickly into greater emotion, and they were shortly whisked off on the conventional Riviera wedding trip. That Octavia detested the still-born placidity of the Riviera made more difficult the time-honored difficulties of early married adjustment. But, back in England, the understanding professor assists her with literary quotations to live with her husband happily ever afterward...
Meanwhile the do-nothing clique of politico-militarists who ousted Dictator Pangalos got together, last week, another Cabinet. It is the old one of Prime Minister Alexander Zaimis, re-formed to exclude Alexander Papanastasiou-which means nothing. The Cabinet has merely been reshuffled to allay strife over whether certain projected roads shall be built in Greece by Samkros Bros., Ltd. of London or by Fox Bros. of Berlin. Presumably Fox Bros. have lost, since their proponent was the ousted M. Papanastasiou...
...Senate for more than a solid hour. He told as horrid a story as the Senate had heard in years, a story of "dark evils of bloody warfare, sickness, suffering, hardship, privation, want and hunger. . . ." It was Senator Hiram Warren Johnson of California describing, not without politico-oratorical flourishes, the condition which Pennsylvania permitted its two-and-a-half-year-old coal strike to reach this winter (TIME...
Observers mused over Dr. Suzzallo's "hardboiled" stand. It was curious to recall that Governor Roland H. Hartley of Washington, Dr. Suzzallo's foe in the state's recent politico-educational upset, once styled child welfare work, which is what the Oregon teachers were virtually proposing for themselves, as "this uplift gush. . .altruistic twaddle...
Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania is a champion for his state-more exactly, he is the most outspoken and vigorous champion for that potent coterie of Mellon-Reed-Pepper, which has its politico business headquarters in Pittsburgh. A member of this group and a good friend of Senator Reed is Cyrus E. Woods,* who was recently nominated for the Interstate Commerce Commission by , President Coolidge. Senator Reed was busily bestirring himself to secure Mr. Woods' confirmation in the Senate, when the hawk-eyed New York World intervened and thwacked him editorially last week...