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Asia. Speak of digging in Asia and you think of Roy Chapman Andrews. After another year on the uncivilized side of the Gobi Desert, he is on his way back to the American Museum of Natural History with plunder from Mongolian beds where "the fossils were so thick they almost interlaced." Paleontologist Andrews shares the view of many a scientist that Mid-Asia was the birthplace and distribution centre of mammalia. His chief finds: many more fossil dinosaur eggs (two years ago he fetched several dozen); several baluchitherium (early rhinoceros) skulls; an unknown two-horned fossil, seemingly a primitive giraffe...
When Nicholas toppled from the most absolute of Christian thrones, the obscure private rallied some of his disbanded Cossack comrades about him, cajoled and coerced them into a little army. By the example of his extraordinary personal bravery, he spurred them on to acts of organized plunder which enabled him to pay them regularly and cement their loyalty. In February, 1921, he terrorized Persia into accepting him as her Minister of War; by October, 1923, he had become Premier and Dictator of Persia; last week the cables carried confused reports which apparently herald his metamorphosis from Dictator into Monarch...
...shall see whether in the worlds greatest city the forces of greed and plunder can completely muzzle the truth and whether they can appease the public appetite with Dead Sea fruit in order that they themselves may get control of the Government of New York to serve their own selfish ends at the expense of humanity and decency and honesty in municipal administration...
...Zionist Congress should require special police protection. It is hardly pleasant to attend a meeting patrolled by police, mounted and afoot, and to find one's sole interest personal security, because of the threats of the rowdies and hooligans, stimulated by liquor and fortified by the hope of plunder...
...election of a Republican as President, with a reliable working majority in Congress, means nothing more than an extension for four years of an unlimited license to plunder the American people, then I cannot be a Republican...