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Textile mill strikes flared up last week like fire in broom straw across the face of the industrial South. Though their causes were not directly related, they were all symptomatic of larger stirrings in that rapidly developing region. Labor troubles first developed in Eastern Tennessee, were followed by strikes in South Carolina and later in North Carolina...
Cotton, Copra, Broom Corn, Vegetable Oils, Hides. The American Farm Bureau Federation asked for duties on all these things as well as on bananas and horse-radish (above...
...trousers, laced boots and ten-gallon hat, motored ten miles to a backwoods cabin where a Dr. W. B. Hodge, one Clyde Moorehead and one Wirt Hatcher, practiced gunners, awaited him with four setter dogs. The President patted the dogs, loaded his gun, marched into the scrub-oak and broom-sage. Hosts, guides and detectives followed, gunless...
Although promising as a new broom, Judge Swanson is taken only on approval by well-informed Chicagoans, who realize that he is politically obligated to Charles Samuel Deneen, perhaps the only U. S. Senator who ever attended a gangster's funeral. But Judge Swanson will be able to bear his political obligations lightly if he makes good his end of his alliance with the Chicago Association of Commerce, which backed Special Prosecutor Loesch and the Crime Commission...
...broom sweeps clean.' A temporary National Prohibition Law as a war measure may be effective. It is urged to stimulate war production in the emergency, and to take temptation from our soldiers, though it is doubtful whether the serious loss to the national revenues, which it will entail, may not outweigh the actual benefits. The immediately useful operation of such a law . . . is not convincing evidence of its ultimate tendency and result. The community must summer and winter it for years...