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Gone, they hoped, and gone forever, were the days of political plunder that under the Longs and the Long machine had almost wrecked the State. Longsters had called Sam Houston Jones "High-Hat, Sweet Smelling Sambo." Last week perfume hawkers yelled: "Here y'are-dip in it-wash in it and win. Sam Jones sweet smellin' perfume. Get like sweet smellin' Sam, that Governor man." For the first time in twelve years, Louisiana smelled sweet...
...China was ever to accept peace, he said, it must be peace with honor and without Wang Ching-wei. What peace would be honorable? Not a bayonet peace, not a peace of pillage and plunder, not a Japanese peace. The only peace China would accept would be one based on treaties-especially the Nine-Power treaty (signed in 1922 by the U. S., Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands, Portugal, Japan, China-Wang Chung-hui himself was a negotiator and signer-guaranteeing China's territorial integrity). Japan, said Foreign Minister Wang, is surrounded by jealous nations who frown...
Hair-raisers among Dr. Rauschning's revelations: 1) Nazi theories are so much window-dressing for befuddling the masses: 2) Germany's real rulers, a small Nazi inner circle or "elite," have one program-power, one plan-plunder, one tactic-terror; 3) this inner plunderbund secretly laughs at Nazi claptrap about race, blood, soil, considers Mein Kampf oldfashioned; 4) they plan to make Germany a base from which to conquer the world; 5) they expect a socialist "second revolution" which will destroy the last remnants of Christianity, individual freedom, reduce the German people to collective serfdom...
...Shanghai from Japan flew Quentin Roosevelt, 19, grandson of the late President, to take off for a one-man expedition into Yunnan Province. Sophomore Roosevelt, on leave of absence from Harvard, expects to find rare manuscripts, skulls, golden monkey furs, hopes his plunder will be considered research work, enabling him to graduate with his class...
...icily calculating, is their family sense: the same greed which divides them among themselves unites them against others. Ben Hubbard perceives they are less a family than part of a race -a race of sharp-toothed, flourishing little foxes for whom the turning century promises a world of plunder...