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...possibilities of new political alignment with Mr. Coolidge as Pres- ident are extremely various. With one sweep the jokester, Fate, took all the pieces off one side of the political chessboard; then put them back in new arrangement...
Among the pranks of fate for the week was what befell Senator Selden Palmer Spencer, Republican, of Missouri, on the recent death of Senator Dillingham of Vermont, Senator Dillingham was Chairman of the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, which passes on the eligibility of Senators to take their seats. Senator Spencer will succeed to that office by rule of seniority. It so happens that Senator Spencer was the great champion of Senator Truman H. Newberry in the deluge of mud which swept down upon that gentleman from 1918 through 1922 because he allegedly spent more than $100,000 campaigning...
...prank of fate, however, is that the Republicans have planned to make a similar assault on one of their opponents, Earle B. Mayfield, elected Senator from Texas last Fall. About a dozen Democrats, it is believed, will vote with Republicans to unseat Mayfield, accused of the same crime as Mr. Newberry. The expression which will reside on Senator Spencer's face is a matter of conjecture...
...right flank of the Indian Empire, would thus come to have increased significance. China would be the glacis for the next great strategic move in the Far East. On Great Britain's ability to hold Singapore and to dominate the coasts of South China ultimately depends the fate of Hongkong and the Treaty Ports, French Indo-China, the Dutch East Indies, the Philippine Islands and the British possessions in the Pacific, including Australia and New Zealand...
Customs officials found that she had been employed as a?rum runner. Her supercargo sold his alcoholic wars on rum row and decamped with the proceeds. For three weeks the Yankton had waited his return. Then with fuel and food exhausted she came into port and surrendered to her fate. She was offered at auction to pay the wages of the crew...