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...Plate marked VERBOTEN, property of the Preusfische Staats-Eisenbahm," etc.). Julius begged the little monsters: "Now if you will only be good a little longer, you'll be in your own nice beds with a glass of delicious hot milk." And grabbing Robert (who had skipped behind a vacant desk and gone to work with pen and rubber stamp), he rushed the trio off in search of a hotel. But not until day's end did weary Julius find a place that was prepared to admit Robert. Léon and Tzara-and even then, "they were taken...
Replacements, which are sorely needed to fill vacant spots, have appeared for some of the graduates, however, and several of last year's weak events have been strengthened by members of last year's undefeated freshman team...
...elected chairman of the Republican National Committee's executive committee, posed for pictures with every leading G.O.P. candidate who came through town, including Republican Leaders Tom Dewey and Wendell Willkie. He was, in fact, carefully preparing for the day when Hiram Johnson's Senate place would become vacant...
...vote, to order a closed, Democratic-controlled recount of the contested districts. When the ballots were recounted, the general assembly declared that both Democratic contenders had won. Then with both houses under Democratic control, the assembly declared all five Supreme Court seats-all then held by Republicans-vacant, replaced the justices with three Democrats, two other Republicans...
...conceded the cardinal's representatives' two" main demands: 1) that religious instruction be given in schools for all whose parents ask it; 2) that church appointments no longer be subject to state veto. Having gained these concessions, the Vatican last week named five auxiliary bishops to long-vacant Polish dioceses in the western lands taken from Germany (the Vatican did not accredit them to specific districts so as to take no sides in the German-Polish territorial rivalry). Finally, the Gomulka government released imprisoned priests to resume their parish work in Silesia...