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Fire brigades from the American and Italian Legations were refused admittance to the sacred precincts. The Chinese bucket brigades were inefficient, and several millions of dollars worth of property were destroyed before an Italian hose, manned by Chinese, was used to extinguish the blaze...
...this was a spiritual movement, then Jesse James belongs in the Hall of Fame as a great philanthropist. This steamship venture was a bucket- shop with a ' spiritual' veneer. Phyllis Wheatley, Frederick Douglas and the other Negro leaders after whom the ships were named must have turned in their graves...
...result was that Governor Preus, casting a bucket of cold water on the hopes of the regular Republicans, called a special election on July 16. Now the vacant seat in the Senate will fall to the winner of a three-cornered fight. On one side are the Republicans, not even unanimous among themselves, on account of insurgents in their own ranks; on another are the Democrats; on still a third are the Farmer-Laborites...
...reaching decision was handed down by Judge Julian W. Mack in the Federal Court, by which State prosecutors can hereafter examine the books of bankrupt brokerage firms for evidence of bucketing and other forms of criminal conversion. Hitherto State and city officials have found it impossible to obtain convictions against bucket-shoppers, who have claimed that such an examination of their books would be unconstitutional, and the equivalent of compelling them to testify against themselves...
...climbing cost (to the public) of crime has been estimated, after exhaustive research by the National Surety Company of New York, at $30 per American individual for the past year. The total price paid by the nation for burglary, forgery, and bucket shops exceeds three billion dollars, and is approximately equivalent to the internal revenue receipts of the Government for the fiscal year 1922. It is greater by half a billion dollars than the imports of the country...