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Despite soft shushing, the first of the R's, so characteristic of the Roosevelt Regime: Recrimination, Resignation and Reorganization, are registering in the Securities Commission. The scavenger instincts of Protector of the Public Pecora scenting a tainted situation in the matter of B.M.T. bonds, have caused that noted headline hound to break forth into full cry, to the consternation of the youthful counsel for the Commission, who, it is said, Burns Pecora up. Any inquisition at this stage will prove a killing frost to the budding confidence of security holders...
...Whispering Riley," who never spoke above a murmur; "Rosy the Tramp" who shaved his whiskers with a candle; Freddy Coombs, who thought he was George Washington; "The Drummer Boy" who never ceased drumming. But maddest and best loved of all was Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico...
...said the California Legislature had made him Emperor of the State. Later, lest his title indicate that California was not part of the Union, he proclaimed himself Emperor of the U. S. When a friend called his attention to the sorry state of Mexican affairs, Norton I decreed himself Protector of Mexico. He dropped this title after ill-fated Maximilian's brief reign, remarking that "It is impossible to protect such an unsettled nation...
...PROTECTOR OF MEXICO
...friend Glazunov wrote down the Overture from memory, and most of the orchestration was done by hardworking Rimsky-Korsakov. Music has remembered Borodin longer than Medicine. But on his casket buried near Tchaikovsky's, Rubinstein's and Dostoyevsky's is a silver inscription: "To the Founder, Protector and Defender of the School of Medicine for Women...