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Debts, The convention enthusiastically applauded Pennsylvania's squat Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis, longtime Secretary of Labor now awaiting retrial for his part in a Moose national lottery, when he said that the debtor nations "could in a short time pay their debts without any discomfort to them" if they disarmed. But the convention leaned toward "readjustment...
...contradictory cables from Allahabad and Delhi raised once more the issue of competence. Who is competent to speak for India? Mr. Ganhdi continued to squat in Yerovda Jail last week, "during His Majesty's pleasure." At the Conference in London sat no representative of Mr. Gandhi's Indian Nationalist Party and not even a Prince or Maharaja of importance. True, the Aga Khan was there but he is the merest British puppet and the head of no Indian state. The Labor Party of Great Britain declined, some weeks ago. to sit in at the Conference because the present...
Osage Indians did not always ride in limousines, squat in blankets among Grand Rapids furniture and generally give a pathetically good imitation of nouveaux riches the world over. Long before chance made them oil tycoons they had a Golden Age. It is not of the prehistoric greatness of the Osages that Author Mathews writes, nor of their bloated capitalist days, but of the time when, still poor and still noble, they lived a benevolently restricted life on the Osage reservation...
Commented Friend Irwin: "Gandhi is now speaking in a language the Indian people understand. If I were to get out in the hallway of the government buildings at New Delhi, squat on the floor and refuse to eat a bite until the Indian civil disobedience movement came to terms, the trouble would be over in a few days. Of course, before those few days could elapse my Liberal, Conservative and Labor colleagues in London would send for me to come home and would have a padded cell waiting for me on my arrival...
...Speaker's Chair when the new Reichstag met for its first business session this week sat 210 Ib. of Fascism. Not merely fat but broad, big-boned and mighty-muscled, Speaker Hermann Goring cut the figure of a squat ogre. But slender and insignificant of mien. Chancellor Franz von Papen was present, carrying ostentatiously under his arm a potent slingshot & pebble: an undated decree dissolving the Reichstag signed by President von Hindenburg...