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...with angry tears in its eyes after the humiliation of branding. The lovely flowered race course at Santiago, somehow English and somehow Swiss. The miracle of a transatlantic telephone conversation, across the mighty Andes, across the pampas and the sea wrack to one's own apartment in the Champ-de-Mars. Bristling, pastel-colored Andean peaks whose ice-covered escarpment separates like some fabulous wall-top of broken glass the nations of Argentina and Chile. Nitrates waiting at the port of Antofagasta to enrich the Guggenheims. The atrocious destitution of the little cities of northern Chile. The cathedral...
...Orleans States fought the rule of Huey Pierce ("King-fish") Long in Louisiana for the past five years. The wily Kingfish did not take this sort of thing lying down. He won over the Item and Tribune, whose Publisher James Mcllhany Thomson (son-in-law of the late great Champ Clark) had formerly opposed him. by giving the Thomson papers all State advertising, by forcing State employes to subscribe...
...Orleans States fought the rule of Huey Pierce ("King-fish") Long in Louisiana for the past five years. The wily Kingfish did not take this sort of thing lying down. He won over the Item and Tribune, whose Publisher James Mcllhany Thomson (son-in-law of the late great Champ Clark) had formerly opposed him. by giving the Thomson papers all State advertising, by forcing State employes to subscribe...
Bethany College (Bethany. W. Va.) Senator Bennett Champ Clark of Missouri LL.D...
...Byars' An American Commoner and find there the quotation from Dana in his Sun: "R. P. Bland is the only statesman produced in this country in the last quarter of the loth Century." And TIME may find the following in the Sun early in 1912: "We note that Champ Clark has selected Bill Stone as his campaign manager. Be careful, Champ, remember what Stone did to Bland at Chicago." And if TIME is not, history will be concerned with what happened at Chicago: That Bland led without any sort of organized support and that he failed of two-thirds...