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...Olson is a farmer, 61, and father of nine children. In 1932 he was a candidate for Governor but Langer had the greater support, so Olson ran for Lieutenant Governor on the same ticket. As soon as Langer was convicted the two Republican factions split. Neither side controls the necessary two-thirds of the Senate required to convict an official impeached by the House...
...stood with Princip!" cut in Editor Rupchich proudly. "The first shot killed the Archduke and the second killed his wife Sophie as she flung herself over him. Then I remember that Count Harrock of Austria rushed upon my poor friend Princip and split his shoulder to the bone with one blow of a sabre. Horrible...
Meanwhile in Ontario the egg-and-tomato throwers rolled up a mighty victory for "Mitch" Hepburn and even rock-ribbed "Tory Toronto" split to make his Liberal victory complete. Conservatives in the Ontario Legislature dropped from 84 seats to 17 while Liberals who had had 15 seats were romping home with 65. Rejoicing at the failure of any third party to make an effective score, Quebec's sly old French-Canadian boss, grey-whiskered Liberal Premier Taschereau exclaimed: "In two provinces separated by vast space . . . results showed that new or third parties have no appeal. . . . My hearty congratulations...
Most of Setauket went over to Supreme Court in Riverhead for the trial. There it split physically as it had long been split emotionally, Livingston supporters lining up on one side of the courtroom, Smith supporters on the other. Everybody had a fine time. Miss Julia Smith cracked back at attorneys, insisted on standing up to testify, brandished a rubber at a photographer. Had she really accused Rector Livingston of misappropriating the money? "Mercy, mercy no!" All she had said was that some church money had been "diverted." By whom? Why, she had never said. Miss Nellie Prietzel and five...
Hugely successful almost from the start, the hardbitten skin traders fought famine and cold, "the feare in the buttocks, . . . the belly empty, the weariness in the bones. . . ." After 14 years the little company startled the world by declaring a 50% dividend. The next year it paid 25%. Then it split its shares three for one and paid 25% on each of the new shares. By 1869 Hudson's Bay Co. felt secure enough to turn over to the Dominion of Canada the title to most of its original grant for ?300,000, keeping only 7,000,000 acres...