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POLITICAL FALSE ALARM
Mr. John Thomas Ley
Since d**k Whittington started the fashion of aspiring to and actually managing to grab the crown of glory, despite the most humble and inauspicious beginning, he has had numerous disciples. One of the long list of “self-made” men of today is Mr. John Thomas Ley, Minister for Justice in the Fuller alleged Government.
Somewhere between ten and twelve years of age—a time when most nippers are concerned with kites, conundrums and copy-book cogitations—John Thomas ventured forth into the hard, cold world to wrest from it a living—and, incidentally, step on the lower rung of the ladder to fame. He found the world even colder than most, for he had to rise before dawn every day to take up his duties on a milk-cart. And, as in the case of the admiral
