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...interests." Responsible for the issuance of the permits, presumably, is onetime governor Jared Y. Sanders, shrewdest of all Louisiana politicians, attorney for the shoepolish magnates. Jared Y. Sanders is now asking to be permitted to exercise his talents in the U. S. Senate and his opponents are bitterly saying: "Ho, contemptible one! You have exploited our natural resources, palsied the arm of the Conservation Commission. To obtain your princely attorney fees, you have twiddled weak Governor Fuqua between your avaricious thumbs. For shame!" Last week, Mr. Sanders savagely denied that he was responsible for a new "invasion" of the Shreveport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Corruption | 7/26/1926 | See Source »

...Burst into unseemly shouts of "Hi! Ho! Hum!" when His Majesty's Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod rapped thrice on the Commons' door to summon them before the bar of the Lords...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: This Week in Parlament | 7/19/1926 | See Source »

...Park (Ill.) High School, when a messenger from Principal M. R. McDaniel's office entered one of the classrooms and haled Student Sam Givens into the corridor. He was wanted at "the office." Having lately won a local oratorical contest, Sam flushed with pleasure, thinking to himself: "Ho, ho, this will be something that Mac [Principal McDaniel] wants to say to me about the national oratorical contest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Brothers under the Rose | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

...many Chinese ships, at one Norwegian steamer, at the Japanese destroyers Fuji and Suzuki.* All this the mercenaries did because they feared that other mercenaries hired by Super-Tuchuns Chang and Wu, the War Lords of Central and Northern China, might be going to sneak up the Pei-ho to capture Tientsin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Pei-ho Plugged | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

Rage. The representatives of the Powers at Peking recalled the Boxer Protocol to the Chinese and threatened a joint naval intervention. Enraged factions staged the usual anti-foreign demonstration at Peking. The net result seemed that the mercenaries at the mouth of the Pei-ho fired a little less often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Pei-ho Plugged | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

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