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...picture of Senators Gore and Austin (TIME, Nov. 30) was taken during their sales-tax-inspection junket to Canada financed by William Randolph Hearst, which was the subject of that story...
...house, planted a graveyard in the front yard with names of his opponents on the tombstones. Fascinated Newburyport elected him its Mayor. He won a second term. Contrary to Newburyport tradition, he stood for election a third time last week. This time, shocked by his brawling, his publicity junket to the Pacific Coast, his high-handed method or turning the municipal administration over to his cronies, Newburyport did not vote "Lord" Andrew a single ward. Into the hands of Gayden Wells Morrill, retired shoe manufacturer, was placed wha left of the city government...
Approved a Cabinet spanking quietly administered to florid, genial James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, Minister of Dominions, who had planned for himself & family a glorious round-the-world junket, visiting all the dominions preliminary to next year's Imperial Conference at Ottawa...
Joyous Jim, who clings to the coat tails of his great & good friend the Prime Minister (having bolted with him out of the Labor Party), was bluntly told last week (reputedly by Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain) that he could not junket about the world at British taxpayers' expense...
Irrepressible Mr. Thomas soon secured the Cabinet's approval for a consolation junket, to South Africa...