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...hotel suite. Meanwhile, the Taxcentinels set up a booth on the campus, sold pennies to all comers. First purchaser ($5 worth) was Rensselaer's 59-year-old president, neat, energetic Dr. William Otis Hotchkiss, onetime farmer, geologist, consulting engineer and chairman of the Wisconsin State Highway Commission. Said sage Dr. Hotchkiss: "A sure sign of spring. . . . I think it is a laudable purpose for the students to be tax conscious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pedantic Pennies | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

Higher than a kite, Sage says, "Holt 'em Yale: John 6, Eli 3"--Burr, it's cold in this Barnes...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey, | Title: "HARVARD HOPES HIGH," HUEY YELLS, "YIPPEE, YALE YOUTHS" | 3/5/1938 | See Source »

...sage scanned the sheet, chucked, proceeded to exclamations of surprise, and replied, "So sorry, unfortunately I do not think I can tell you what that means...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overset | 1/18/1938 | See Source »

...Duke had escaped by special train from Shantung Province when the Japanese marched in fortnight ago, blasting the ducal seat near the Sacred Mount Taishan, where some 10,000 descendants of the Sage are buried. In 1936 the Confucian Society of Japan got the boy Duke to come to Tokyo and dedicate a shrine to the Sage. Ever since there have been rumors that Japan was persuading the Duke to let her set him up as puppet ruler of China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Warlike Confucian | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

Chicago police and Washington income tax sleuths said they have never heard of Alex ("Kid Tiger") Sikorski. Yugoslav police believe it was he who turned up in Belgrade last year boasting he was a faithful henchman of the late John Dillinger on his way to "get" Anna Sage, the Rumanian-born "Woman in Red" who put the finger on Dillinger. In Europe it can be as much fun to pretend to be an American gangster as to pretend in the U. S. to be a prince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANDORRA: No Admittance | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

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