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...granted excessive fees to Samuel Shortridge Jr. in a receivership later voided on appeal; 3) he appointed for Fageol Motor Co. a receiver whom he knew to be incompetent and unqualified; 4) he threw Prudential Holding Co. into receivership and appointed the same incompetent receiver "for the sole purpose of benefiting and enriching his personal friends and associates." A subsidiary accusation was that, to dodge a divorce suit in San Francisco, he established a fictitious residence in another county while continuing to live in hiding in the city. The general charge: "Abuses in high office, tyranny and oppression, favoritism...
...autonomy ... in harmony with local conditions." This organization should police Manchuria with "an efficient gendarmerie," yet to be created; 3) "the Assembly recommends the opening of negotiations between the two parties" [China & Japan] and invites each to accept the Assembly's recommendations in toto "subject to the sole condition that the other party also accepts them...
...admittedly imperfect and tentative, but the late unpleasantness should be sufficient evidence that the need which it outlines is far from ethereal. House Librarians have enjoyed a considerable degree of independence; and in general their consequent interest has resulted in efficiency. But as long as they remain practically the sole judges of their own management, one may reasonably expect occasional carelessness and abuses...
...Lappish description of Lapp quarreling, drinking and reindeer-stealing (most heinous Lapp offense) see Turi's Book of Lapland by Lapland's sole author of note, Johan Olafsson Turi (b. 1860), who philosophically observes "When you will tell of everything you must write both of the ugly and the beautiful...
Later in the morning the sole indication of national elation was a demonstration by the students of the University of the Philippines, indulging the Latin scholastic tradition to whoop one way or another at any political occurrence...