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...have the use of my legs by climbing up into the Dome of St. Peter's, a feat rarely accomplished by any of my predecessors, obese or otherwise. Although a strong wind was blowing, I sat for about an hour in an armchair on the balcony, watching some workmen build the new Vatican seminary...
...present Japanese workmen cannot strike if employed by an enterprise in which the Mikado or his family has an interest, for such a strike would be interpreted not only as an affront to the Imperial House but as a defamation of the gods from whom the Mikado is descended. Hence, in disputes between capital and labor, the Emperor has gradually been drawn into the position-undesirable for a modern sovereign-of standing always with the full purse against the empty. Now, by liquidating its holdings, the Imperial House will resume the high impartiality expected of sovereigns...
...immediate cause of the Cabinet's fall. One J. Ross Campbell had been arrested on a charge of sedition for publishing in the Worker's Weekly an article appealing to British soldiers, sailors and airmen not to fire upon British workmen, should their officers ever order them to do so. Sir Patrick, as Attorney General ordered the charge against Mr. Campbell withdrawn. At once the Communist sheetlets began publicly to rejoice that the Government is at last acting as a Labor Government should." In vain, Sir Patrick protested that Mr. Campbell was only acting editor" of the Worker...
...also had a son in the tradition, Friedrich Alfred Krupp, who purchased the "Germania" shipyard at Kiel, expanded the industry until it employed 40,000 workmen. At his death in 1902, he was succeeded by his elder and able daughter Bertha who in 1906 married Dr. Gustav von Bohlen und Halbach. At that time, Germany was just getting into her stride in the naval competition with Great Britain, and the demand for steel was enormous. Before the War, visitors to Essen stood aghast at the monstrous flame-belching foundries hastily proceeding with their grotesquely demoniacal output. And during...
...stolen by souvenir-seekers. The President gazed vaguely at his 80-year-old uncle, John Wilder, singing lustily in the chorus in spite of the fact that he had fiddled for dancers far into the night before. ¶While the President and Mrs. Coolidge tour hither, thither, architects and workmen swarm about the White House, make repairs. A new roadway is to be completed in the White House grounds, and an electric elevator installed in place of the old lift once allegedly used by Kermit and Archie to bring ponies to their bedrooms...