"This big apple we call the world" (1920, from Kansas)

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For what it's worth.
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11 July 1920, Grand Forks (ND) Herald, pg. 4.
_Wants Turkey Abolished._
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_Kansas Editor Vigorously Sec-_
_onds Senator King's Motion._
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Senator King is a Democrat, and he comes from Utah, but he has one of the
best suggestions yet offered in the United States Senate. It is to abolish the
Turkish government, "which has neither right nor reason to exist." No truer
statement was ever offered in fewer words. It has been the decayed spot in this
 big apple we call the world for many centuries.
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--Topeka Capitol.



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