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...stoutly, even bitterly retorted that rail wages must stay up. It is in these Brotherhoods that U. S. Labor has established its strongest citadel and it is here that the wage-fight will reach its crisis. Although a 10% wage reduction would benefit the carriers as much as a blanket 15% rate increase, there have been no cuts except among salaried workers. Rail officials have been even stronger than was Steelman Farrell last spring in making clear that wage cuts would be the very last resort. Few people think that the Brotherhoods would accept a reduction without strikes and disorder...
...same size as the rope that had bound Collings. Two suspects had been seen at Norwalk, but they had departed. From the Hotel Charles in Springfield, Mass, had come word that an "F. E. Collingbourne & Wife" of Stamford, Conn, had registered there more than a year ago. A blanket from the Hotel Charles and a pair of large canvas shoes were found in the launch with Mrs. Collings. Fred J. Voos, president of the Bridgeport baseball club, told police he had borrowed a similar blanket early in the summer, that later it had been stolen from his boat with...
...successful at betraying dishonest colleagues. One of his bosses once told him: "Ye're a bit too gude for this worrld, young man; but ye'll have a fine time in the next one. I've nae doot." Even Author Sinclair calls his hero "a wet blanket, a killjoy, a spoilsport, a mollycoddle." "He had to be," explains Author Sinclair. You will probably not be sorry to learn that Kip was finally shot, in line of duty. Maggie May went right on lecturing, with another big talking point...
There was a lull in the storm. The superintendent of police went about warning the city that another, more vicious blow was expected momentarily. It came sooner than he expected. With it came a tidal wave. It poured over the city its mammoth salty blanket. It knocked the police officer's car spinning, drowned him. It seated a 200-ton vessel on the customs house roof. It demolished nearly every house in town...
...Author has enriched his pages with painstaking scholarship, has attained some of the flavor of the historical novels of Scott and Stevenson. But only in the last chapters of The Blanket oj the Dark does his story drop its studious tempo, achieve the needed breathlessness of cloak-&-sword drama. Aged 55, John Buchan served in the War as London Times correspondent and as intelligence officer, has written a capable history of it. He lives at Oxford, serves as Member of Parliament besides writing and publishing. Says he: "I have to live on a very strict schedule. From Monday to Friday...