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...Star Spangled Banner" is "Anacreon in Heaven." It is "The Eyes of Texas." There was a president of the University of Texas [William L. Prather-ED.], a generation ago, whose pet admonition to the undergraduates was, "Remember, the eyes of Texas are upon you." A collegian [John Lang Sinclair- ED. J to express irreverent student sentiment toward the repetitious phrase, wrote certain words to a popular air, and loudly a group of young men-keeping themselves well back in the shadows to avoid identification-serenaded the president with them one night. They harmonized : The eyes of Texas are upon...
Debt-repudiating Mr. Lang was sorely disappointed. Tabulation of the vote showed that the Labor Party had won but 24 seats in the Assembly, a loss of 31 seats. Premier B. S. B. Stevens' conservative United Australia Party took 66 seats, a gain of 43. Mr. Lang managed to win a seat for himself...
...Lang is right! Lang is right!" chanted 200,000 Laborite paraders in Sydney last week on election eve. Big, square-jawed John Thomas Lang, ousted from the Premiership of New South Wales last month by Governor Sir Philip Game (TIME, May 23), hoped that the issue of "British meddling" would return his Labor Party to power in the new Legislative Assembly, give him back the Premiership...
...Albert Bathurst Piddington, president of New South Wales's Industrial Commission, startled the Empire last week by penning a new tract to prove that His Majesty's Governor of New South Wales, Sir Philip Game, acted unconstitutionally fortnight ago when he dismissed Laborite State Premier John Thomas Lang, famed for repudiating New South Wales's debts (TIME...
...back up his opinion Justice Albert Bathurst Piddington resigned last week in protest against the action of the crown, resumed his scholarly researches as president of the Australian Modern Languages Association. Friends of Mr. Justice Piddington recalled that he was not appointed to the Industrial Court during the Lang régime but previously. They prophesied that his stand will enable ex-Premier Lang to stump New South Wales in the coming election on the issue of Royal meddling in the affairs of a sovereign Australian state...