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...stands as the President in whose administration occurred one of the most malodorous scandals in the country's history, a scandal whose oily trail led to the resignation under fire of a portion of his cabinet and the conviction of his Secretary of the Interior for taking a bribe from the same oil interests many of whose officials also fell under the penalty...
...jaguars or hostile savages, but lack of water, of food. The stifling, steamy heat was bad but endurable; but once swarms of ihenni flies kept them sleepless for 90 hours. Their mules, exhausted by travel, were nearly finished off by vampire bats. One time Duguid, night-enveloped, riding the trail alone, was halted by two blazing eyes. He was sure it was a jaguar, but Siemel convinced him afterwards it must have been a couple of fireflies; no land animal's eyes are auto-luminous. They met some hostile natives and for a while were surrounded by them, expected...
...chum, and I have been publishing since January. We do it for fun. We like to do it. Billy is twelve, and I am eleven years. We have had fine support for our paper from all the Sourdoughs and old-timers for miles around. And out the Trail...
...favorite. Harvard the second choice. The race is figured to be between these two with an upset recorded if either Tech or Syracuse comes through. In the junior race Harvard has a great chance but all around if looks like close finishes with no disgrace for those who trail the first boat in this race of great evens...
...known periodicals from home. We knew not the object of their visit, but felt it must be one of importance to Chile, and we so talked to our Chilean friends and associates. Our humiliation and disgrace was complete. . . . Their insults and . . . actions in and about their hotel leaves a trail impossible to eradicate. God help us if American newspaper men number many in this class. . . . British, French, Italian and German representatives act quite in the opposite manner, and these are the people with whom we are competing for Chilean business...