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...whole life has taught me what America means. I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay. It conferred upon me the mission to administer America's response to the appeal of afflicted nations during the War. It has called me into two Cabinets of two Presidents. By these experiences I have observed the burdens and responsibilities of the greatest office in the world. That office touches the happiness of every home. It deals with the peace of nations. No man could think of it except in terms of solemn consecration...
...liquor taxes of Colombia, like those of Panama (see above), have been pledged along with other taxes to repay $31,665,500 lent from the Liquor Prohibiting U. S. Therefore U. S. investors were vexed, last week, with Colombians who inaugurated a regime of partial prohibition...
However, although liquorish Colombian revenues have been curtailed, the non-liquorish revenues pledged to repay the loan in question still offer "good security...
...there you have it. If you think you can be amused (which we were) by Mitzi's impersonation of a little girl injected with a few good cracks, an evening at the Shubert will repay you. If you are a Scollay Square aesthete, or a devotee of Max Reinhardt, you will probably be more contented at home...
...England. True also that the 60 signers did not have enough influence to cause Mr. Arliss to resign from Equity. Yet it must have been painful for Mr. Arliss to realize that some at least of his ungrateful confreres would go far into the past and repay kindness with spite in the foolish effort to requite their grudge against his country...