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...Solution. McWilliams' solution is as simple and drastic as a bog-oak shillelagh, as controversial as a Donnybrook Fair. "The nation now possesses," he says, ". . . the will and the physical unity and the power to achieve what it should have achieved 50 years ago-total democracy in the United States." Congress must enact a "new Federal civil-rights statute." It must outlaw the poll tax in Federal elections and "Jim Crowism on all types of interstate carriers." It must pass a "Federal anti-lynching statute." To implement this policy, it must use the bludgeon of hard cash. All Government...
Beebe also opened the scoring in the second period, taking a pass from Paine after the opening face-off. After Everts hit the mark on a pass from Dick Harding, Northeastern got its final goal of the evening with Bog Saumsiegle doing the honors...
...name is Herman Hastings Garner, president of the Vortox Manufacturing Co., inventor and by far the largest builder of a complex carburetor air cleaner, without the like of which tanks would bog down in the desert, their engine cylinders irreparably scored by sand and dust...
Danger now is that local scrap collec tions may bog down because scrap dealers are receiving more metal than they can handle. When scrap piles in community dumping grounds do not move quickly, people who searched from attic to cellar for contributions may get disgusted with the whole drive. Actually dealers are ship ping scrap to the mills as quickly as pos sible and at a satisfactory rate. But deal ers are handicapped because the publicly collected scrap requires careful sorting (about 30% of the take thus far has been metal not suited for steelmaking - non-ferrous metals, galvanized zinc...
...seventh tree was for George Heisler. Hiding in a swamp, Heisler planned his moves with the shrewdness of an experienced political prisoner. Soon he would have to get out of the bog and seek help from man. To whom should he go-to his estranged wife, to his former mistress, to his best friend of pre-prison days, to his former political friends...