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...Italy probably conferred with Germany before beginning negotiations with Great Britain began at all, and there is every reason to believe that they will continue to stick close together just as long as it remains profitable to both, but either one would ditch the other if the occasion arose...
...will to fight the Japanese, whom he has been getting ready to fight anyhow, with Communist assistance, that will put a much better face on things. We can also tell the West that if we win this war with Moscow's aid we will turn around afterward and ditch Moscow, just as we did before...
Last week trouble was coming to a head. The will of the late Sultan was at last about to be probated. Sultan Wasit's loyal followers were sure that the Filipinos would try to ditch him to make the Moros, who are practically excluded from representation in the Commonwealth Government, into a completely subject people. In recognition that open hostilities were at hand, the Government constabulary in the Sulu Islands was reinforced and for the first time Moros were forbidden to wear their traditional arms, krises, barongs, kampilans. Many Moro datus, maharajahs, panglimas and imams retired to their secret...
...lantern, the messenger and a mechanic appeared with the battery. The four men walked up the road, found nothing, went back and installed the battery. That done, they again set out to look for Mrs. Taylor. Two hundred yards from the car they found her crumpled in a ditch, with one of her shoes clasped under her arm, scratches on her thigh, a bullet through her heart. Beside her lay General Denhardt's .45 calibre revolver with two chambers fired. Walking back toward the car, the men found General Denhardt's automobile keys and flashlight lying beside...
...candidates elected to office, but Governor Henry Horner, whom it tried to crowd off the Democratic ticket in the primaries, had a 400,000 majority, three-quarters of it piled up in Chicago. State's Attorney Thomas J. Courtney, whom the Kelly-Nash crowd also tried to ditch, not only polled more votes than Franklin Roosevelt but more than any other candidate ever polled in Cook County: 1,276,984. With these warnings ringing in its ears, the machine put its City Council to work. Two days after the election, in which Chicagoans voted...