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Smouldering from this technical defeat by a Prussian Socialist, President von Hindenburg was in ripe mood for drastic action when Chancellor Heinrich Briining of all Germany reported that in the Reich- stag the national Socialist party was continuing to hamstring his fiscal program. Already two luckless Finance Ministers had been forced to resign. The Socialists were blocking the Budget. What should two old soldiers do about these pesky Socialists?for Herr Briining too is an old soldier (Iron Cross...
...went home, were never out of the trenches more than 4 hours. After the War he worked on the London Daily News, then retired to a workman's cottage in Devonshire to learn to write. Other books: The Dream of Fail-Women, The Lone Swallows, Sun Brothers, The Old Stag, Tarka the Otter, The Pathway, The Wet Flanders Plain, Dandelion Days...
...dinner conversation through an interpreter Mr. Hoover may well have touched on the reason why the State Banquet was stag. Mrs. Hoover, still suffering from her fall, had been obliged to remain recuperating by the Rapidan (TIME, June 16). For his part Senhor Prestes may have mentioned the illness of his wife. She left Rio with him, had to be put ashore sick at Pernambuco, recovered, sailed for Europe last week, and will very shortly meet the President-elect in London or Paris, returning thence with him to become Brazil's First Lady...
...price of $3.50 a head out of the funds of the Freshman Jubilee, providing there is a surplus after all bills have been paid, and that the officers of the Freshman Class give their consent. In View of the already high price of Jubilee tickets ($7 per couple, $5 stag), with $1 reduction to purchasers of the Red Book), it seems to me that this action is unwarranted and merits protest from the class...
Selected by ballots in the student paper, the due, in effigy, were hanged on the campus, mocked at a stag smoker, and later burned at the stake Disrespect Vindictiveness...