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...Bridgeport, Pa., strikers forced entrance to a mill, broke a woman's leg. At Greenville, S. C. one man and four women were clubbed, kicked and mauled in scrimmages with deputies. At Fall River, Mass., Radical Ann Burlak. "The Red Flame,'' was forbidden to hold a meeting. In New Bedford, Mass. 3,000 pickets attacked the main gate of the Firestone Tire Fabric plant, showered windows with stones, forced 600 workers to retreat into the mill for safety. At Trion, Ga. a deputy sheriff and a non-union man were killed in a battle between strikers and deputies...
Canada's rich, pious and paunchy Premier Richard Bedford Bennett sped to Quebec as the trig little liner Duchess of Richmond steamed in from Liverpool. Aboard was the Prime Minister of Great Britain, James Ramsay MacDonald, and his Housekeeper-Daughter Ishbel, on a three-month Canadian vacation. Whisked off by Premier Bennett, silver-haired, 67-year-old Scot MacDonald was soon sailing across the Bay of Fundy, driving up to a tiny cottage in Digby for the rest which eye-strain has imposed on him. As Ishbel sent out for more vases to hold the flowers which Digby...
...vituperation. Across from his farmhouse "Mitch" Hepburn had established a 15-acre car park and on big nights as many as 20,000 farmer constituents arrived to roar "Good boy, Mitch!" as he berated not only provincial Conservatives but the Dominion Government of rich and pious Conservative Premier Richard Bedford Bennett...
...most fortunate occurrences of these lethargic examination days was a chance visit to that old New England Whaling town, New Bedford, last weekend. Both the whales and the weather had evidently given out long ago so there was nothing to do but go to the movies. And you would all be surprised to know what up and coming pictures these old salts have for their amusement...
...Bedford seemed to like Sadie but the reception which an exhausted undergraduate body will accord her seems more doubtful. We are quite sure that she can't supply the relaxation that Zasu Pitts and her privy chamber would but she has her good points. Joan Crawford, who makes a very lovely Sadie, plays a demanding part; a maid in a wealthy household, the unfortunate heroine of a love affair which doesn't quite come off a chorus girl, the wife of a millionaire and finally a sweet young thing. For her suitors, there is Franchot Tone who outrages her sense...