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...these powers will persist in having it so, they ought at least to see what a bashful, reluctant, stubborn fledgling they are forcing to assert unsought dominance. Alexander and Napoleon craved world dominion and went in search of it. But Uncle Sam is having it rammed down his throat...
Dixie to Broadway. Another machine gun of the show business has opened up on the line. It is a Negro musical comedy with Florence Mills directing the fire. Experts assert that the new contrivance shoots the fastest of all its kind...
...enthusiastic response with which the formation of the new party has been received everywhere has led the committee to assert that intelligent people everywhere are beginning to see that all three of the candidates, Coolidge, Davis and La Follette, are equally to be rejected as incapable and worthless...
...during 6,000 years of history had Egypt claimed suzerainty over the Sudan until the year 1820 when Mehemet Ali, "barbarian of genius," and Sultan Mahmud II of Turkey succeeded in conquering the country. But even this victory was only nominal; for the Turko-Egyptians were never able to assert complete mastery over the country which they contemptuously called Bilad-es-Sudan, "country of the blacks." In 1882 came the revolt of the Mahdi, "Guide of Islam," aimed specifically at the Egyptians whose corrupt practices were thoroughly despised. The regime of the Mahdi was later replaced by that...
...Wholesale Druggists' Association also adopted a report condemning the Cramton Bill, passed by the House and now on the Senate calendar, which would take the Prohibition Unit out of the Internal Revenue Bureau and place it directly under the Secretary of the Treasury. They assert that it would hurt their industry if control of the industrial alcohol trade should be taken from the supervision of "the conservative internal revenue officers" and given entirely into the hands of "inexperienced prohibition agents whose time is largely given up to pursuing law ; violaters and who regard every user of alcohol...