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...Sent police and Mobile Guards against 20,000 furious French farmers who gathered at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and sang the Marseillaise in protest against Premier Flandin's decision to unpeg the French internal price of wheat. After the farmers had dispersed grumbling, the Government announced that within three months the price of wheat will be gradually unpegged, and French farmers will be obliged to report the area they intend to sow in wheat to the State which may curb any farmer who seems likely to raise over 100 quintals (367 bushels...
...sooner was King Alexander murdered than all the people of Yugoslavia began wondering who would be chosen to execute the official memorial to him. Sculptor Mestrovic will do a heroic statue for the family tomb at Oplenatz. Painter Vanka has already finished the portrait...
Next morning the Presidential party awakened in its Pullmans on the western side of Tennessee at Nashville. There was a short stop at the State Capitol grounds while Mrs. Roosevelt went up to lay a wreath on the tomb of one of her husband's predecessors, 11th President James Knox Polk. Thousands lined streets and roads as the party continued into the country to breakfast at the old home of 7th President Andrew Jackson...
...kind of breakfast that "Old Hickory'' relished. First came savory country sausages and fried apples with cinnamon, followed by a superb dish of turkey hash with beaten biscuits, hominy and eggs scrambled with browned cornmeal. The President was then taken outside for a view of the Jackson tomb. He also cocked an appreciative eye at the fine old stone springhouse, pouring its sparkling waters across the world's most abundant mint...
...Protocols is an economic romance entitled Biarritz, written in 1868 by Hermann Goedsche, a German who used the pen name of Sir John Retcliffe. As a melodramatic interlude in his book Goedsche pictured a secret assemblage of the "Elect of Israel," gathered in a Prague cemetery around the tomb of a mythical "Holy Rabbi." The gathering plots the destruction of the world much as do the Elders in their Protocols. Goedsche's notion, besides inspiring the author of the Protocols, lived on in its own right. In 1893 German editors reported it as the authentic speech of a Jewish rabbi...