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...Herriot left the tribune dozens of Deputies sprang from their seats to wring his hand, clap his broad back?but soon afterward the chamber voted 4O2-to-187 to reject the Herriot motion for payment. Amid pandemonium the Premier shouldered his way out of the Chamber, followed by his Cabinet and by so many Deputies that adjournment was expected and some Deputies went home. Instead debate was resumed in the gray dawn and at 6:03 a. m. (while M. Herriot & Cabinet were at the Elysee presenting their resig nations to President Albert Lebrun) the leaderless Chamber voted again, this...
Once he makes up his mind Persia's sharp-nosed "King of Kings," Reza Shah Pahlevi. is a tiger for action. Last week he sprang on Anglo-Persian Oil Co. Ltd., stock control of which is held by the Government of Britain's King George V, no tiger. In Teheran, with Reza Shah Pahlevi presiding, the Persian Cabinet denounced and cancelled Anglo-Persian's concession to exploit 500,000 sq. mi. of Persian oil land which was to have run until...
...blandly dissecting the answers he received. Swindler Wright grew pale as he realized that at last someone could untangle his involved deceptions. A jury found him guilty, a judge sentenced him to seven years imprisonment. Sharp-eyed Counsel Isaacs saw Wright's hand go to his mouth. He sprang forward, but it was too late. Wright lay dead on the floor, his hand clutching an empty phial of cyanide...
...Dartmouth there naturally sprang into existence some years ago an organization known as the Dartmouth Outing Club, formed to give some kind of expression to the desires of the undergraduate body to get out of doors. It may seem strange, with the facilities for such an organization available since the very founding of Dartmouth College, that a start was not made before...
...score of German soldiers but military authorities imposed the death penalty automatically on enemy soldiers who passed more than a fortnight behind the lines without surrendering. An orderly read out the names: "Henriet, Quartermaster of the Luneville Dragoons, son of M. Henriet & Mme nee de Gail." A German officer sprang up to demand if Quartermaster Henriet was related to the von Gayls of East Prussia. He was. The whole case was reported to the Kaiser by the Grand Duchess of Baden, friend of the family, and the sentences of all 15 men were commuted to internment in a prison camp...