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...This week the Dominion Government will grapple with the question of taking over part of the provinces' revenue sources for war needs. Though it would be like losing teeth, observers thought that for politico-patriotic reasons Mitch would have to give up some of Ontario's cherished pin money, possibly sign away the Province's share of the joint dominion-provincial income...
There was a much bigger, tougher boy named Joe. One day at cries of "Fight! Fight!" Bellamy came skating across the pond to find Herb on his back and Joe on top of him. "Herb had a tricky way of rolling an opponent who tried to pin him down; but Joe made no attempt to pin him-he simply began to hammer the living daylights out of him." Herb "must have been absorbing quite a drubbing for the moment he heard my voice he called . . . 'Jump in, Bill!' " But Joe had a long reach, held Bellamy off with...
...hands full with his store clerks, who had revolted and were demanding an accounting of some $910,000 which they had paid to Mr. Caldwell in dues. Further embarrassing Mr. Caldwell, State officials raided a safe-deposit box and found a cache of jewels, including a diamond-studded union pin worth...
Where the money had gone was not easy to discover. Almost $900,000 might be regarded as legitimate Embassy pin money. More than half a million dollars had disappeared into the convenient anonymity of bearer checks for amounts as high as $200.000. Better than $4,000,000 had just vanished...
Evacuating Foochow the Japanese declared that, having destroyed the Foochow supply route into China's interior, they need no longer pin troops there. This was nonsense. Even the Japanese must have known that they had not wiped from the minds of the coastal men the memory of tricky paths to the interior...