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...American public that chose him for positions of high responsibility should unite in honoring the high capacity by which their choice was justified. A statesman of long apprentice-ship, he pursued a clear-headed and unswerving course in a decade when capitalistic evils and pre-war animosities were rife. Legislator and Chief Justice, through the World War and the period of recovery, he conducted his career with the same integrity of purpose...
Disappointment with the results of the London Conference is justifiably rife. The present generation has seen a long succession of American political leaders engaged in making high sounding promises of disarmament, promises which ended where they started--on paper...
...Minas Geraes is a Democrat stronghold; the Conservative campaigners were greeted with a burst of gunfire from Democrat sympathizers. Five people were killed, 16 wounded, and Vice President Mello Vianna received three bullets in his neck. Wired Brazilian Minister of Justice Vianna do Castello: VIOLENCE WHICH HAS BEEN RIFE IN THE STATE OF MINAS GERAES SINCE LAST OCTOBER HAS NOW CULMINATED IN A SERIOUS POLITICAL INCIDENT. I DEMAND AN EXPLANATION...
Unemployment is rife...
Someone in Washington with a memory for faces was startled. Whisperings were started. Other memories, joggled, also led to recognition. Soon the Capital was rife with rumors that Harry Ford Sinclair, convict in the District of Columbia Jail, was riding through the streets in a motor car. The jail officials were questioned. They admitted that for two months Convict Sinclair, prison pharmacist, had been detailed to accompany the jail physicians to the city wharfs to attend prisoners working there...