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...campaign: Governor Smith: "The fathers and mothers of New York resent Mr. Hearst's interference in the politics of this city, because the example of his life is such as to make it undesirable that our youth be impressed with the fact that a man like him can wield any considerable amount of political influence in any community...
Having learned to wield the saddle-maker's awl and, in his spare time, the pen, he forsook his trade, went to Bremen and became a journeyman. In Bremen, as is most of Germany's seaports, Socialism was finding hospitable entertainment in the hearts and minds of the common people. Young Ebert soon became identified with the Socialists and was to be seen most Sundays haranguing crowds on the merits of Marxian philosophy* but for all his energy he passed for a man of mediocre ability...
...general cause of the dispute is inherent in the political chaos which besets China. The Tuchuns, who exercise almost sovereign power in their Provinces, are split up in many factions, due largely to personal jealousies. The immense power which the Tuchuns wield is naturally the greatest obstacle to the reunification of China. China as such is internationally little more than a geographical expression. Nothing short of a civil war between the Centre under Gen. Wu, "biggest man in China," the South under Dr. Sun Yatsen, and the North under Marshal Chang can ever clear away the political strife which...
...theirs, said he, to inaugurate a program, nor to wield the stamp of approval on others' programs. It was theirs to help the U. S. decide whether or not to " pursue the old paths of local, so-called national self-interest or to venture upon the highway of international coöperation...
Referring to the American Owen D. Young, who helped form the Experts' Report under the presidency of the American Charles G. Dawes, the Neue Berliner Zeitung said that in his capacity as agent of reparations he would wield more power than ever did Wilhelm Hohenzollern in the youth of his glory. Under the heading "His Majesty, Owen I," the paper referred to him as "the secret Emperor of Germany...