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...sincerely mourned. The triumph of his career as boss came in 1923 when he put honest William Emmett Dever into Chicago's mayorship. In 1926, Brennan "bet his bossdom against a seat in the U. S. Senate that Illinois is sick of Prohibition"-and lost to Senator-eject Frank L. Smith...
...which was the price of his loans to one Bassanio, is not one for starched shirts and diamond dignity. The demeanor of flawless respectability which has so often served able Actor Arliss well now plays him false. He finds it difficult to add writhing to his words as they eject ". . . and spit upon my Jewish gaberdine." He finds it difficult to scream "My daughter, my ducat...
...Born in Virginia, raised in Tennessee, he was one of Andrew Jackson's lieutenants at fighting Indians. Tennessee sent him to Congress and elected him Governor in 1827. When his wife left him, he resigned as Governor and went to live with the Cherokees whom he had helped eject from the State. President Jackson sent him to Texas to make Indian treaties. Texans were at that point (1833) citizens of Mexico. Sam Houston helped draft their petition to the Mexican Congress to be separated from Coahuila as a Mexican State. The petition was refused. Independence was declared. Sam Houston...
Several Wesleyan missionaries who attempted to eject the student propagandists were themselves ejected. Thereupon the chief tenets of the Christian religion were held up to derision and ridicule. Frightened, the Wesleyan female Chinese converts stopped their ears and cowered in their seats. Later the students rushed through a dormitory distributing anti-religious literature to a group of converts, who were afterward discovered to be blindmen...
Violent Developments. Though the Senate has yet to ratify the bills passed by the Chamber last week, the Deputies had hardly ceased to vote when Fascist police and soldiers swooped down upon all known gathering places of antiFascists, ejected and in many cases arrested persons found there, and padlocked the buildings in accordance with the not yet legalized decree suppressing anti-Fascist gatherings of every sort. Followed swiftly an order by Secretary General Turati that all Italians and foreigners must salute the Fascist banner whenever and wherever it is displayed. The Secretary, a feverish zealot, also began a tour...