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...right paw, also well placed, nipped out from the Foreign Office a statement that Emperor Power of Trinity was being advised by the British Government to "withhold" whatever concession or concessions he may have granted. Exclaimed His Majesty: "Surely the British Government cannot interfere in a concession granted to the United States! . . . I gave the concession to Standard Oil." By this time Fat Chaps had arrived in French Somaliland and realized that he had embarrassed London by announcing in Addis Ababa that some of his backers are British. Said Promoter Rickett, changing his tune, "The capital of the African Development...
...Note--The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer, will names be withhold...
Frank Merriam is a moon-faced lowan who crept into Sacramento as Lieutenant Governor in 1930, succeeded to the Governorship when "Sunny Jim" Rolph died last year and black-jacked California's influential Republicans into nominating him against Sinclair by threatening to withhold State troops from the San Francisco strike last summer. He is an arch political trimmer, paying harmless lip service to the Townsend Plan and at the same time complaining to his capitalist supporters that he is surrounded by fanatics. But even Frank Merriam could not trim the fact that California desperately needed revenue...
...sovereignty of the State shall be no more. The new President has set up a Boston Tea Party of his own by which he will reach out into the sovereign States, draw out the tax resources, and then withhold from the States their proportion of this fund if they insist on exercising the right of a State...
Albert G. Burns of Oakland, Calif, was re-elected president of the Congress. It was Mr. Burns who last year revealed that a Clevelander named Antonio Longoria had invented a death-ray which killed rabbits, dogs & cats instantly (TIME, July 23). President Burns said that Inventor Longoria would withhold his secret until invasion threatened...