Word: reade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...squelching a rebuke from the representative of a Great Power, would have flustered most Chairmen, but sturdy Dutchman Loudon said evenly that he had read Mr. Harmon's letter because he considered that it contained a valuable suggestion. In brief, Airman Harmon's plan is to equip the League of Nations with a volunteer army of aviators, and each aviator with a bombing plane, ready at command to blow the night lights out of the capital of any nation which started...
...attention before King Vittorio Emanuele III in the Chamber of Deputies last week, waiting to take their oaths of office. Each deputy was resplendent in dress suit and white gloves. "Gentlemen!" boomed Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, "His Majesty the King invites you to be seated!" They sat. He read the oath of office. He began to call the roll. Like clockwork, as each name was barked, a white-gloved hand shot up in the Fascist salute, and the deputy in question shouted "Giuro!" ("I swear!"). Straight down the roll to "M" read Il Duce, never moving a muscle until...
...Tchitcherin: "You must abandon your censorship and guarantee freedom of expression, otherwise our correspondent will be withdrawn and so will the correspondents of other American newspapers, so that Russia will find herself without means of communication with the outer world." The rage into which Comrade Tchitcherin flew when he read these words was towering, to say the least. "The newspaper speaks to me," he stormed, "as if it were a government of equal power!" His reply was to expel the Tribune's correspondent, George Seldes,* thus preventing potent, four-fisted, he-publishers Robert Rutherford McCormick and Joseph Medill Patterson...
...thumps. "I am sufficient of an Englishman not to be content to see my country and my people bled white for the benefit of other countries far more prosperous than ourselves. You are all just electioneering, just tub-thumping!" Impressively, on behalf of the entire Cabinet, a statement was read out, deploring Mr. Snowden's "wanton and reckless act," and affirming that "the Balfour Note is the foundation of the Government's policy." At this point political dopesters freely opined that Pixie Snowden's rashness would cost the Laborites whatever chance they have to win the approaching...
...students' score, also seemingly illogical, was 11% in belief of a real Hell but only 9% in belief of a real Devil. From the mass of contradictory credences could be sifted an essential credo, believed by 75% or more of the combined ministers and students. This credo would read: "I believe in the personal, omnipotent God, the Father, who controls the universe, and operates on human lives through the agency of the Holy Spirit. I believe that Jesus like myself was tempted, that he met his temptations and difficulties with only human resources, and that he lived on earth...