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...Britain has never been willing that any one Continental power should dominate Tangier lest it be fortified into a menace to the route to India. No one believed last week that Dictator Premier Primo de Rivera would achieve the momentous concession from the Powers which he appeared to seek. Statesmen winked an eye and remarked that the Dictator was only trying to stir up sufficient trouble to enable him to demand a permanent League Council seat for Spain as the price of being good...
...another month, but I shall, of course, make a special trip to Los Angeles on Aug. 31 to vote for you." The California Primaries are just about the best political sideshow now on view in the Republic. Presidential hopefuls and other bigwigs, unheard-ofs and the ghosts of bygone statesmen crowd the stage. Local feuds, Hearstling newspapers, religion, and the World Court make good scenery...
...epithet applied between 1880 and 1910 to all manner of aged men (British statesmen, pioneer missionaries, U. S. village doctors) ; now obsolete. †The modern "time-clock" is an ingenious contrivance shaped somewhat like a bicycle wheel, with a revolvable indicator pointing to various numbers assigned to different persons respectively. If person No. 6 "punches" the indicator into his slot upon his arrival at 10:30, the time is so registered; and the boss arriving later knows his office boy was tardy...
Though the U. S. stands in no immediate prospect of a Moscow station powerful enough to "jam" stations across the Atlantic, European statesmen were distinctly vexed, last week at the probability that millions of Godfearing, Capital-revering Europeans will soon be listening to such siren-tongued orators as the Soviet régime can muster...
Gumchewer Rogers was abroad, leering at statesmen, buildings, people, scenery. "Yours aquatically," he signed his cables. "Yours politically. . . Yours imploringly. . . Regards to 'Cuckooland.' " Readers could only picture the editors of the Times screaming with laughter at lines like: "Don't put too much faith, you Democrats, in rumors that peasants of the Middle West will defeat Coolidge. They change with the wheat crops and he has two to go." Or, "A bunch of American tourists were hissed and stoned yesterday in France, but not until they had finished shopping." Or, "Suzanne Lenglen has been landed by Pyle...