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...special trains, omnibuses, wagons, automobiles, drove straight to the spot. Under the flooding, 30,000 people stood for an hour and a half, stood while their umbrellas leaked and the pure water from Heaven dripped down the backs of their necks?stood and listened to a wizard whose wizardy, like all magic of slight and faery lore, was supposed long since to have vanished. What...
...Then the wizard recited a magic formula: Let the Government guarantee landlords the same income on their lands that they now get, then let it give a cultivating tenure to farmers, supply them with liberal credit, better buildings, and exact of them scientific agriculture...
...time has come," the wizard said, "when the State should resume legal authority over the land...
...chief matter of note about the Mission is that it is composed chiefly of men who command a large following in the several groups of the French Parliament. It looks as if Wizard Caillaux plans to insure beforehand that any agreement which he may make at Washington will be approved at home and promptly ratified...
...probably Harvard"), nor yet to the University of Southern California (though that institution made "elaborate overtures"), but surely to a university whose scientists would maintain and perpetuate his labors, and what more appropriate than to Leland Stanford Jr. University, where of recent years he, the world's plant wizard, has been a special lecturer on Evolution? That was the indication, that a "friendly committee" would shortly be formed to determine a fair price for the gardens and another committee, possibly headed by Mr. Ford, would hunt around for funds to enable Stanford to buy. During negotiations, Stanford...