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...witness stand the ex-Governor admitted that Indians had been flogged, but qualified his statement by adding: "Floggings in India are not inflicted with cat-o'-nine-tails but always with bamboo, sometimes with a cane. They are mild compared with...
...fact that men will be allowed to bring to the hall only a small rug, and that they will have to provide their own punch bowl, ladle, and glasses. Each box will have been provided with a small table and table-cloth, as well as a sufficient number of cane-seated chairs. The committee further gave warning that box chairmen are responsible for any breakage or damage in their boxes...
...Freshmen", explained Mike, "haven't got much sense. Wednesday night, for instance, the Tech Freshman basketball team came over here to the gym to play the Harvard Freshmen. They waited and waited, and when no Harvard boys cane they packed up and went home...
...order to protect the "War-baby" beet sugar industry of this country, a tariff on imported sugars was placed in the Fordney-McCumber tariff act. The beet sugar growers of Utah and other centres have strongly supported this tariff. And the sugar refineries and the American companies producing cane sugar in Louisiana, Cuba and elsewhere have strongly opposed it. Without the tariff, the American beet sugar industry is doomed, since it cannot compete with the lower costs of producing Cuban sugars. With the tariff, we have a situation analogous to taxing American sugar consumers in order to subsidize the domestic...
...took charge of the entire paper, except the editorial page, over which the late Frank I. Cobb (TIME, Dec. 31) presided. He took, too, a spacious office, at the far end of the city room, through the length of which he strides like a hurricane, swinging his cane, and shaking the floor with the weight of his stal- wart frame. Last May, eight months ago, Mr. Swope decided that the Democrats would hold their 1924 Convention in Manhattan. At once the idea became "front page stuff" on the World. The rest of Manhattan smiled, knowing that the home of Tammany...