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...hereby refuse to receive any report from you as representing a legally convened legislature." He cited a State Supreme Court decision to that effect. He posted three companies of National guardsmen to patrol the state capitol and prevent "all insurrectionary meetings," following the tactics of onetime Governor Jack C. Walton, who was impeached in 1923. At dead of night, speaker E. P. Hill of the House of Representatives and H. Thomas Knight, another anti-Johnston agitator, summoned their colleagues to secret conclave in the Huckins Hotel. In pajamas, night-shirts, bathrobes and galluses, without chairs enought to go around...
...strong tide of super-taxation in the British Isles has long been breaking up the great estates and driving limpet peers to incorporate them selves. Last week the Earl of Derby (Darbi) sold large property holdings in Liverpool and nearby Bootle and in Kirkdale and Walton to one Philip E. Hill, London financier, for about $8,500,000. The Earl, however, still retains his famed country seat at Knowlsey, also nearby...
...property in Liverpool, Bootle, Kirkdale and Walton consisted of free hold and ground rents on 20,000 houses, Lord Derby retaining all his rights as lord of the various manors. These rights have endured ever since the creation of the earldom...
...allies. We discussed all this, and I was strongly of opinion that we should go over to Paris at once and register a note to Wilson putting him in his proper place; but I was not able to persuade Lloyd George, and after lunch he went off to Walton Heath. Either he is seedy or meditating a speech. I am certain we (British, French, Italians) ought to get together and put the truth baldly to Wilson. He is now taking charge in a way that terrifies me, as he is only a super-Gladstone?and a dangerous visionary at that...
...Holy Cross first-year runners are: Donaghy, Gatzenmaier, Hegarty, Madden, Maher, and Walton...