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Commissioner Enright, it will be remembered, was hiding his light under a lieutenancy when Mayor John F Hylan brought it forth to blaze into the dark byways of criminality. One year ago the metropolitan press wanted to "oust" him from office because of the "crime wave." This year there has been less complaint against Mr. Enright. Hence his speech...
...place yesterday afternoon in the red-brick store-house of the Cooperative Society, situated on the alley back of the store. The fire was discovered by the janitor about 2.30 o'clock and an alarm was sent in. Four machines were immediately sent by the fire company and the blaze was extinguished in short order...
...their anchors". The action catches the fire from the flame of a royalist plot, which having been stamped out in France has thrown a few sparks across the Atlantic. These may have smouldered for some time but when we take up the story they have started a fence blaze around a precious paper held by a gentleman as perfectly eccentric as any we have met with in many moons. It is he, this "unspeakable gentleman", who for a day and a night fights the world, his son, Fate, and the reader, with the meagre assistance of rum, Madeirs...
...incurred a forty-million dollar deficit. The two houses, seeing what was happening, attempted to hold him in restraint by passing the resolution for-bidding recruiting. The President, faithful to the last, supported his theory and his Secretary by his veto. If the Administration cannot go out "in a blaze of glory," at least will never admit its mistakes. The House, however, has repassed the resolution; it should also be repassed by the Senate...
...fact that a score of blazes developed simultaneously shows it is unlikely the fire was accidental. So monstrous a plot could not logically have been concocted by men crazed with the "firebug" mania, and as Worcester is well-known for its radical element, the finger of guilt seems to point at Bolshevism. Coupled with previous and similar losses, and recent strikes in the manufacturing plants on the same scene, the case against the "reds" gathers weight. Until definite proof is offered, of course, it were folly to assume on the spur of the instant that any special group...