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Arizona's filibuster could not beat the Boulder Dam bill in the Senate. Its pleas for a veto were ignored. Last week's suit released all its pent-up legalistic fury against what it considers a rape of its sovereign rights and resources...
...monopoly of the Danish Crown, but even so the monetary returns from Greenland are so meagre that Denmark is out of pocket some $150,000 yearly as a result of keeping her huge colony. Greenland is bigger than Iceland which is not a "Danish colony" but a "sovereign State" whose king, Christian X, happens to be also King of Denmark...
...University of Pennsylvania last week celebrated the 165th anniversary of its medical school (oldest in the land) with banquets, speeches by five of the eight sages* to whom it gave honorary degrees, inspections of its vast medical plant, and President-elect Thomas Sovereign Gates' declaration: "I would rather see one ounce of genius developed here than tons of mediocrity...
Elected to fill the late Dr. Dorrance's place on the directorship of Pennsylvania Railroad was Thomas Sovereign Gates who recently resigned his partnership in J. P. Morgan & Co. to become president of University of Pennsylvania...
...good thing of his "vacations" in Havana. The fees of his law firm swell yearly. Bluntly, this potent Cuban feels that all Hague and no play would make Antonio a dull boy?wherefore alarums by Senor Ferrara at The Hague, the haughty Spanish phrases about the right of "sovereign states" to be as bumptious as they please, the comedy of Mutt & Jeff...