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...have thereupon accused the British Foreign Office's civil servants of an "indiscretion" would have been contrary to the principles of British parliamentarianism and of British journalism. Instead last week, the London Daily Telegraph spoke of Italian secret operatives having filched the document out of British hands "by a clever piece of indiscretion"-neatest trick of the week...
Having heard the jury's verdict of guilty, Justice Sir Cyril Atkinson turned to the fallen financiers and said: "You were in great positions. Great positions carry great responsibilities. I should be failing in my duty if I did not punish you." Thereupon he sentenced Messrs. Bishirgian & Howeson to one year of imprisonment without hard labor. That was the same sentence passed upon mighty Lord Kylsant in 1931 in the same court house for the same offence in connection with a scandalous Royal Mail Steam Packet prospectus. The third pepper man received nine months. All appealed...
...further with a hypodermic of morphine. Then operating with only his left hand through a hole cut in the side of the cab and working with his surgeon's lancet and a machinist's hacksaw, Dr. Long amputated John McCoy's right arm at the shoulder. Thereupon firemen hauled the man out of the cab, tied a rope around his waist, lowered him head first to an ambulance which rushed him to a hospital for possible recovery...
...Thereupon, with a fine show of League spirit, the lady and gentleman secretaries from 58 nations followed their French Secretary General into what is to be the $10,000,000 League of Nations Centre. Through gusty, dusty corridors reeking with fresh paint and plaster, the Secretary General & Secretariat threaded their way among Swiss carpenters who eyed them with disfavor...
...bill of Rear Admiral Sir Murray Sueter to replace the "squirrels" of the Imperial Defense Committee with a Ministry of Defense to coordinate Navy, Air Force and Army under a single Minister distinct from the Prime Minister. A parliamentary stickler, Sir Austen argued against this private bill which thereupon was withdrawn; argued for a similar reform by the Government, thus associating himself with His Majesty's Government in debate. Yet in so doing Sir Austen delivered the maximum blow to "Bumbler Baldwin." After Sir Austen resumed his seat, the House of Commons lobbies heard for the first time serious...