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Died. Judge Francis Joseph Heney, 78. famed prosecutor of Oregon land fraud trials and San Francisco graft prosecutions 30-odd years ago; after a long illness; in Santa Monica, Calif. As a young man in Arizona, Heney undertook the case of a divorcing wife whose husband, hulking Dr. Christopher Handy, had threatened to shoot any lawyer who helped her; when they met. Heney drew faster than Handy, killed him. John, son of Christopher Handy, was last week a pallbearer to Judge Heney...
...time Tammany Boss Richard Wellstead Croker the press was convulsed with excitement. In 1901 Tammany had been soundly beaten by Fusion Candidate Seth Low. Boss Croker had gone back to his native Ireland to buy a huge estate in County Dublin with the proceeds of years of "honest Tammany graft." He then launched on a racing career, which reached its peak when bluff Edward VII refused to ask him to a Derby dinner when Croker's horse Orby won the 1907 Derby...
...British corn laws (which put a high tariff on imported grain, in favor of England's home-grown wheat), the Irish had been reduced to practical subsistence on the potato, and when that crop failed whole counties were left literally foodless. Governmental remedial machinery was slow, graft-ridden, stupidly conceived. While the famine lasted. 21,770 people died of starvation, the total Irish mortality for the five years that ended in 1851 was close upon a million. The two most important results were: a desperate stiffening of the rebelliousness already inflamed by Wolfe Tone. Emmet, O'Connell...
...stirring local triumph -because he was the first Liberal returned in 30 years by the county in which he stood. Ontario at that time had been mainly ruled by Conservatives for nearly a generation. Toronto had become the stronghold of Tories who felt so secure that years of niggling graft were heading the Province for a sudden, swift, pro-Liberal reaction to "throw the rascals out." It came soon, and ebullient young Mr. Hepburn could not have chosen more shrewdly the moment for his political debut. Increasingly sleek, fashionably dressed and attentive to women (although happily married, albeit childless*) "Mitch...
...surviving figure in the Victorian tradition of Bearing the White Man's Burden, spreading the Pax Britannica and generally wiping the noses of people like the Egyptians. Almost nobody disputes that half a century of British dominance in Egypt, more or less disguised, has acted as the greatest graft-purge in Egyptian history. Standards of administration have been upped and the 14-year reign of the late King Fuad was marked by more material progress in Egypt than the previous 2,000 years. His Late Majesty, however. was a definitely strong Egyptian character, obliged though King Fuad was often...