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...first Coalition Cabinet since the War but also the smallest, most mobile. A place was held open for Great Britain's last Coalition Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, but that wary Welshman was not so sure. He realized the necessity for the new Government and he sent his right-hand man, Sir Herbert Samuel, to represent him on it. But he realized fully that this was a bankers' Cabinet put into office to get a certain thing done as quickly as possible, that the men who pulled the wires would allow no Lloyd George bargaining and political trickery. Therefore...
Machado's Return. By the week's end warfare had quieted enough for Gerardo Machado' to return to Havana with his chief of staff and right-hand man General Alberto Herrera, the man who more than any other squashed the rebellion. Havana police were on their toes to prevent an outbreak from rebellious students...
...Last week in a "folksy" broadcast of his experiences, he declared: "Within the White House you can hear the shrill, excited laughter of little children. What if their grandfather is the President of the U. S? That does not prevent him from keeping in the top right-hand drawer of his desk a glass jar of sticks of peppermint candy. . . . What if a small girl and her younger brother swarm onto their grandfather's lap and after them and onto the same lap leaps a flop-eared and gangly puppy dog while the grandfather is at breakfast? . . . The puppy...
...left him, went to London, heard Atheist Charles Bradlaugh preach, became his right-hand woman. Fourteen years she wrote and harangued for Free Thought, finally saw Bradlaugh seated in Parliament. Once they stood trial together for publishing a birth-control pamphlet. Convicted, they appealed and this time won; sold 185,000 copies of the book in three years...
According to the bletter of the Metropolitan Police. Officers James E. Cronin and H.J. Sullivan noticed a light in the right-hand upper corner of the building while they were cruising along Soldiers Field Read in one of the police Fords at about 3.15 o'clock yesterday morning. Finding the front door unlatched, the officers entered with their revolvers ready, believing that they had the thug trapped. A minute examination of the building, however, failed to reveal the miscreant. Police offered for an explanation of the escape, the possibility that the fugitive had taken to the water...