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Blackest page of all came with Hoover's eviction of the Bonus Marchers, wives and children, by gas and bayonet. Contrast that with the friendly reception accorded by Roosevelt and you will see some reason for the vet's leaning toward Democracy...
When the Transvaal began to heave and simmer over the volcanic question of Indian immigration, and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi-not vet a Mahatma but already a smart agitator-challenged the Government to slippery grips, it was Smuts who had to bear the onus of sending him to jail. When labor troubles invaded the Johannesburg mines, it was Smuts who alienated the workers by ordering out troops, arresting and deporting the labor leaders without trial. It was also Smuts who got most of the criticism, little of the credit, for the. Union of South Africa...
...British Foreign Office cautiously registered "disbelief." British newspapers were unexcited. The false rumor had been as effective as if it had been an official trial balloon. Thoroughly satisfied, Kamâl Atatürk at week's end categorically denied that soldiers have marched into the demilitarized zones-vet...
Bohrod is an able realist, somewhat after the manner of Charles Burchfield. A quality of charming naïveté arose from his photographically detailed landscapes into which he had put every broken bottle, trash heap, For Rent sign he had seen. In one picture the sign on a store, "Bohrod & Son. Est. 1934," was painted in just after his son's birth...
...spotlights, stood Harry Strauss registering easy contempt. His eyes were slits in a sallow, freshly-shaved face. His nails were well manicured, his thick, black hair sleekly pomaded. Over a blue suit pressed razor- smooth, with blue shirt and tie to match, he wore a Chesterfield overcoat with vel vet collar. His pearl-grey fedora rode jauntily above a sneering smile...