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Into the House of Representatives strode Col. Lindbergh and broke a precedent. He was received by Nicholas Longworth on the Speaker's rostrum, unique honor for a private citizen. Said Mr. Longworth: "America's most attractive citizen." To his feet jumped Representative Snell, New York, moved to confer the Congressional Medal of Honor on the flyer. Hammering his gavel, not waiting for a vote, Mr. Longworth shouted: "The bill is passed!" Laughter; shouts of approval...
...sabbatical system brings to mind Judge Ben Lindsay's now famous theory of Companionate Marriage which emerged but slightly crippled by Bishop Manning's broadside, and is soon to approach the rostrum under the protection of the astute Bertrand Russell. While companionate marriage gropes for a footing midway between the antipodal theories of Trial Marriage and the customary timeworn marriage, Mr. Adams is bolstering up the latter against the radicalism of the former. A sabbatical system offers a field of compromise between extremes. Whatever may be the solution, these suggestions are recognizant not only of the fact that divorce maintains...
...Hsieh, hailed by representatives of the American press as the "Roosevelt of China", will then mount the rostrum to uphold his well-defined stand of "Hands off China...
...eloquent, so passionate was the President that great tears streamed down his cheeks. Deputies, visibly moved, blubbered with him. One Deputy, dashing the tears from his eyes, made a heroic effort to reply to the presidential speech, but in vain. As he mounted the rostrum, his eyes swam, overflowed, and he shook convulsively with great, heartrending sobs, completely overcome. Another dignity read his speech...
...that moment the conference saw a strange sight. Leaning on the arm of Viscount Curzon-was Captain Ian Fraser, a blinded young war veteran. Slowly the two moved through the 3,500 assembled Conservative delegatives to the rostrum. Then, standing sightless, Captain Fraser made a two minute speech in which he put forward a stirring plea for faith in young British womanhood...