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...Niles, Mich., Harry Wills, onetime stevedore, leaned his black bulk against a door-jam and watched Champion William Harrison Dempsey sign a contract to meet him in a ten-round, no-decision contest in Michigan City, Ind., in Sept., 1926. Promoter Floyd Fitzsimmons posted 1200,000 as a forfeit, Dempsey $100,000, Wills $50,000. Every man in the land who reads a,sport sheet had an opinion to offer bn this historic scene, the culmination of four years of bickering. Some likened it to the Oath of the Tennis Court, the signing of Magna Carta, of the Treaty...
When the case came up for trial, the Senator had gone on his journey with the Senate Committee (vide supra). The only charge lodged was resisting an officer. In absence, his bail was forfeit, and the case closed. In Maryland, his home state, Senator Weller was arrested, for failing to have Maryland license plates on his automobile. Instead he had District of Columbia plates. The District fee is $1; the Maryland...
...told them that before leaving France, he had been almost mobbed by hundreds of poor men and women who had invested money in Russian bonds, and who would never consent to forfeit them. The Ambassador continued...
Married. Princess Nobuko Kuni, sister of the Crown Princess Nogako of Japan, to one Kosei Sanjo, commoner ; in Tokio. To marry one below her in blood, she was obliged to forfeit her rank...
...most of this dope trade, having replaced the British as the foremost traffikers. This disingenuous attitude of quibbling over means of enforcement will not blind the world to the fact that Japan, while anxious to pretend cooperation with western nations in a humanitarian program, is at bottom unwilling to forfeit the commercial advantage which she draws from the continuance of the opium evil...