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When told the oil operators might seek relief in the U. S. courts, Governor Murray exploded: "Just let 'em try to pull that old Federal court injunction stuff on me. It'll be like a jackrabbit trying to tree a wild cat ... Some of these quill suckers-said my action was bad precedent and that if I could do that for oil, it could be done for cotton and wheat. They don't understand that an executive order must invariably follow the law and there's no law to control cotton or wheat production when...
...handsomely bound volume containing the verses and pencil sketches of various Harvard professors which have appeared from time to time in the Lampoon under the title of "Drippings from a Witch's Quill" will be on sale next week at Harvard Square bookstores and at the Lampoon Building, it was announced last night. The collection, edited by T. G. Upton '31, C. E. Pickhardt '31, and Paul Brooks '31, is now in the hands of the printers, who are hastening its issual in time for the return of graduates to the annual commencement exercises...
...inkstand made was the wedding of Princess Marie Jose of Belgium (TIME, Jan. 13). Finding it necessary to order a candelabra for H. R. H., he went the whole hog, ordered the Peace Palace's inkstand too, plus a tray for it to stand on, plus two goose quill pens...
Replying to "Devoted Augusto" the quill pen of august Benito traced in stiffest. most formal Italian...
...taxation without representation!" was the battle cry of the American Revolution. Last week His Excellency General Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, President of the Reich, imposed upon Germans by a stroke of his goose-quill taxes totaling $115,000,000 which had previously been rejected by the Reichstag. After signing this extraordinary decree at midnight, Old Paul went troubled to bed. In the grey Berlin dawn millions of papers were imprinted with the ominous words: VEILED DICTATORSHIP...