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Then to John Henry Hoeppel, who in the Congressional Directory claims to be a "graduate of the University of Hard Knocks," came a still harder knock: Son Charles flunked the entrance examination at West Point. Last week a jury in a District of Columbia courtroom, where the Hoeppels, father & son, were on trial for conspiracy to solicit a bribe, heard what became of the West Point appointment. James W. Ives, a handsome Olympic athlete from Baltimore, who had played football at Johns Hopkins, took the stand and swore as follows...
...another part: "It was a hos night and we (Freshmen) opened the windows for an. There was suddenly a knock at the door, and 10 or 12 Seniors strode in. They closed the windows, sat down, each pulled out a big, black cigar and proceeded to smoke it. Pretty soon the room was unfit for living. We could not have lasted much longer when one Senior jumped up and hurried out the door. Leaving his supper on the doorstep, he disappeared...
...over to tie his shoelaces. All but two men in the party were brutally slaughtered. By Feb. 17, a punitive expedition, complete with an admiral. 500 troops, five Maxim guns and a 7-year-old native boy who kept saying "God bless the Queen and I hope you will knock hell out of the King of Benin," were fighting up that same trail, blasting away at the gates of Benin...
...large number of local drug addicts, bootleggers, bad girls, small-town eccentrics. Every few years its inhabitants burn down part of the town for the insurance. Central character is Shackle Redmon, tall, 17-year-old, dirty-faced boy who worked in his father's brickyard, occasionally got into knock-down fights with the old man, fell violently in love with the village heiress. Dorothy Hopper had been called "Pete" since girlhood. At 19 she was a sophisticated young lady who had been to Nashville, read the works of James Oliver Curwood. and belonged to the fashionable Campbellite Church. When...
Being a lawless rascal himself--but a gentle soul--the Vagabond feels there is too much anxiety over the Constitution and what nice piece of legislation the supreme judges will knock out next. Despite the belief of Justice Story to the contrary--beg pardon Sir--the Supreme Court has since his day frequently declared acts of congress and State legislation unconstitutional. And wasn't it back in 1828 that Jackson was elected despite Chief Justice Marshal's fears and clamors bout the constitution? Anxiety over the constitution and the Supreme Court has been with us from the outset...