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...uremia); in Paris. In 1894 Captain Dreyfus, 35, first Jew on the French General Staff, was arrested on a charge of selling military secrets to Germany. Court-martialed, he was convicted of high treason on the basis of a secret dossier, which was later proved a forgery, and other scant evidence including the testimony of famed Handwriting Expert Alphonse Bertillon. Publicly degraded, Dreyfus was sentenced to Devil's Island for life. When it became apparent that Dreyfus had been shamelessly railroaded, Novelist Emile Zola, backed by Clemenceau and Anatole France, wrote his celebrated J'accuse, an open letter...
...peerless jewels on a low-necked evening gown, and in Her Majesty's opinion other women should employ the same basis for such jewels as they have to show. This year the Lord Chamberlain has been dutifully hinting the royal pleasure to dowagers and debutantes, but with scant result at the season's first two Royal Courts. Last week the Queen-Empress, not wishing to be the only low-necked woman at the last two Royal Courts, had the Lord Chamberlain's Office issue this mandatory ukase: "Ladies attending Their Majesties' Courts must wear low evening...
Giving tired politicos scant rest, Premier Laval forced them to work with him all day, drafting an emergency-powers law much more limited in scope than had previously been asked. Partial victory came when the Chamber Finance Committee approved the text. Then Premier Laval went straight to the Chamber at 6 p. m., paid no heed to his frigid reception without cheers, asked the suspicious Deputies to approve a bill of one single article reading thus...
...country's most famed editor, Arthur Brisbane, who now runs Hearst's tabloid New York Daily Mirror. While his neighbor Daily News was filling every editorial page for a week with angry philippics and cartoons against the Supreme Court, Editor Brisbane happily buried NRA with a scant half-column editorial. Then he got down to subjects much nearer his soft old heart -babies and gorillas. In a resounding editorial on the Dionne quintuplets' first birthday, he pointed the inevitable Brisbanal moral...
...crossing the finish line a scant two feet ahead of the Navy crew, and a length and a half ahead of Harvard, the Penn oarsmen on Saturday duplicated their performance of last year by winning the cup donated by Charles Francis Adams '88. The Quakers were clocked at 8:58.6 over the mile and three quarters course on the Severn River, with the Navy a tenth of a second behind, and Harvard finishing...