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...Listened for one hour while Representative Blanton of Texas strove to clear himself of an allegation in the Washington press that he had been arrested for speeding in his automobile...
...truth, he cried: "France never formulated the idea of revanche*. . . We waited immobile and anxious before the sphinx of Destiny until the day when the Imperial Governments of Austria and Germany, drunk with pride, loosed on their peoples and ours that catastrophe which until the last minute we strove to avoid. . . . On that day of days we were free again, and we swore never to lay down our arms before we had assured the double deliverance of Alsace and Lorraine...
Last week Dictator Stalin, speaking through Pravda, strove to warn both peasants and industrials that they imperatively must increase sowing and production if economic Russia is not to perish in a dwindling vicious circle. By way of striking a note of cheer, Pravda observed that the peasants are not hoarding as obstinately as in the years of extreme crisis, 1920 and 1921. The additional fact that grain collections have considerably speeded up since the first of this year prompted Pravda to detect "a marked change for the better in the relations of the important mass of the peasantry toward Soviet...
...smothered the characters their dramatic interest dwindled slightly. The asides were not always accurately and shrewdly handled; the new technique was necessarily a trifle coarse. Rose the inevitable foolish chorus that Nina was a vile female and should never have been written up at all. Some strove to discredit it with the growl that O'Neill had simply taken many findings of the psychoanalysts and copied them into his characters...
While railroaders, security holders, bankers and lawyers strove for months and months to reorganize the company, the I. C. C. watched and listened almost jealously,* not only because the I. C. C. would have to pass upon the reorganization when it was evolved, but also because the I. C. C. felt duty-bound and empowered to have a hand in the actual reorganization. In their grudging majority decision, the Commissioners wrote: ". . . We were confronted with two alternatives. The first was to approve in toto the securities proposed . . . the other, to reject them in toto. . . . We should not, however, have been...