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Probably because Cruiser A is already in course of construction, the Reichstag voted 255 to 203 to complete the job. Instantly it began to seem incredible and silly that anyone had ever taken this teapot-tempest seriously or believed that Old Paul von Hindenburg might resign...
Seldom has a more terrific tempest been brewed in any teapot than that which perturbed all Germany last week, when the Reichstag convened for its Winter Session. The question at issue transcended Cabinet lines. The chancellor, Socialist Hermann Müller, would have to vote "Nein!" while his Defense Minister, Nationalist General Wilhelm Groener, would vote "Ja!" Portentously an awful rumor spread that President von Hindenburg was threatening to resign if the Reichstag went "Nein!" Old Paul von Hindenburg wanted a hearty "Ja!" because that would mean the appropriation of 85,000,000 gold marks ($20,000,000) to complete...
...tempest in the Yale teapot has become a tempest in the editorial rooms of the Yale Daily News. Today's issue of the "oldest college daily" carries three communications from associate editors in which the News and individuals connected with it are arraigned for the "playing up" of non-college Republican news and the "playing down" of Democratic news. The paper also carries a reply to the communications from Fred A. Simmons, Jr., Boston, managing editor, the most interesting part of which is a post-script in which he says "the managing editor of the News doesn't give...
...polite tempest of gossip and denial that the great Earl of Birkenhead would resign as Secretary of State for India was finally stilled, last week, when he, burly, brilliant and socially lionized, despatched to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin a lengthy letter. Suave, it concluded: "The moment of parting is always sad. Your own personality has converted a Cabinet which assembled upon the crater of some bitter and recent memories into a band of brothers. I leave them and you with emotion and, if I may be allowed to say so, with affection."-Birkenhead...
University Theatre "The Tempest...