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...Prime Minister in South Africa," and it is held by General the Honorable James Barry Munnik Hertzog. The speaker first amplified and then qualified his treason-smacking premise thus: "We of South Africa can have done with all kings tomorrow and introduce a measure [in the Dominion Parliament] to abolish kingship; but the English among us would protest and probably many Dutch would support them. The English might even take up weapons and rebel [against the Dominion Government]. . . . I do not think that England and the other Dominions would resort to force...
...defense was that his articles consisted of comment, not reportorial details. No hairsplitter, W. O. McGeehan, sportswriter for the New York Herald Tribune suggested: "There seems to be a simple and obvious solution for two of the most vexing current problems, prohibition and amateurism, and that is, to abolish them both...
Finally the high, nasal voice of Chiang Kai-shek in triumphant recital of the last will of Dr. Sun Yatsen, ending; "Fight on, my fellow workers! Bring about a People's Convention for the solution of our national problems and to abolish the unequal treaties with foreign nations...
Alabama was the last of the States to abolish the leasing of convict labor. Agitation for the reform began in 1915 but progressed slowly in the State whose senior Senator is James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin. In 1923 the Alabama Legislature passed the reform law. Not until last year and this, under Governor Bibb Graves. were the State's penal facilities built up to accommodate all the State's prisoners...
Approval of the often-beaten Norris amendment to abolish "lame duck" Congresses...