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...Priest Coughlin & retinue (including Senators Nye and Elmer Thomas) came to the platform great was the ovation. The hall, with 15,000 people in it, was nearly full but there was no overflow audience. First, the evening's hero let his sponsors spellbind the crowd. Applause and cheers came liberally, turning to hisses when Priest Coughlin's Washington lobbyist, Louis B. Ward, referred to "a certain kept General, Hugh S. Johnson." It was 11 p. m. before Priest Coughlin's turn arrived but the audience was still enthusiastic...
...General Kondylis was, per force, passing out the plums of his new regime. The time was ripe for unctious smirks and fawns, for oratory, guile and treachery. The Greeks were happy. Even Admiral Hadjikiriakos, supposedly down and out as the crony in dictatorship of General Pangalos, was able to spellbind the Athenian rabble for an afternoon in Constitution Square. At eve he sought the new Dictator-with and against whom he has plotted many times-presented a petition signed by many a rabble scrawl demanding the formation of a Coalition Cabinet. This demand, already fructifying in other brains...
Home Affairs. Premier Aristide Briand loitered about the lobbies of the Chamber of Deputies. He loitered only, in the sense that for hours each day he did not go anywhere else. He exhibited his flamboyance in a daring campaign to spellbind the Deputies by his personal magnetism into a belief that the only workable majority which can be formed in the Chamber bears the trademark Aristide Briand et Cie. Stirring interludes ensued...