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Action started by a fire in front of Weld Hall. While Apted's men were rushing to extinguish this blaze, a second fire appeared in front of Hollis Hall. Police following the migration of the crowds to the new point of excitement, arrived there only to find that the rioters had produced a third fire just as the second was succumbing to Apted fury...
...Francisco's Shamrock Club, Dancer Betty Blossom swirled onto the floor, swinging a pair of benzine torches. A drunk rose, foolishly pawed at Dancer Blossom. Up went her arm, up in flames went the flimsy papier-mache ceiling. When firemen fought their way in to smother the blaze, they found a Chinese cook, three orchestramen hidden in the icebox. Dead from flames and trampling were the hatcheck girl, a woman patron, two men. Torch-Dancer Blossom was arrested for violating San Francisco's fire laws...
...that railroads are susceptible to smart merchandising. What is more, he did something about it. With other Western carriers in 1933, U. P. cut passenger fares as low as 1.7? a mile. Shortly a U. P. streamlined Diesel flyer smashed the transcontinental record by nearly 15 hr. in a blaze of publicity...
That would have been the end of Old Ludwig except that the Australian Labor Party is theoretically opposed to capital punishment and is actually and vehemently an enemy of black men because they are a source of cheap labor. Labor members of the Australian House of Representatives ignited a blaze of protest against the execution of Old Ludwig. To Labor the ''Sane Government" coalition of Prime Minister Joseph Aloysius Lyons replied that capital punishment is Australia's law, sharply adding that Labor seemed to want one law for blacks, another for whites. Finally the Government Ministers pointed...
Here was a test of strength, a sign of returning vigour in the American masses, so the reactionaries, quick to quench spiritual fires wherever beginning to blaze, set to work. Mayor LaGuardia, already having flown his true colors as a traitor to the masses in the purge of Marcantonio, issued a few proclamations regarding Public Health, and tried to arrange parleys for peace, where naturally intelligence has an unfair advantage. All to delude the elevator boys to return to their Hell of button-pushing and servility...