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...grandmother pawned her gewgaws for gunpowder and tore up her cotton petticoats for bandages when the homeland was imperiled in 1861-65, so many a Louisiana lady was last week offering her most cherished heirlooms for sale to raise money to crush the boss rule of blatant, butter-nosed Senator Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long. By last week anti-Long sentiment was so bitter in the State that at a huge mass meeting in Baton Rouge, responsible citizens publicly urged the use of violence if their demands for economy and decent government were not satisfied. Strapping Mayor Thomas Semmes Walmsley...
...Origin of that struggle was the German hierarchy's demand that members of the schismatic "Old Catholic" sect be removed as teachers in state schools. Distrusting ecclesiastical interference in state affairs, the "Iron Chancellor" not only refused the demand but approved a series of "May Laws" to crush the Church. Payment of clerical salaries by the state was dis continued, church property confiscated, religious orders expelled from Germany. Many a priest and bishop who defied these laws was fined and jailed. Net effect was to embitter Germany's Catholic population, increase the strength of the Catholic Centre Party...
...pier Ramon Grau walked into a cheering, raving mob. His automobile inched slowly along, finally collapsed in the crush of admirers climbing upon it. At his home he walked out on the balcony to speak but the great, warm roar of the mob drowned out his words. He went back inside, stood uncertainly for a moment listening. Then he keeled over in a faint...
...Earle was early on the Roosevelt Bandwagon. For his campaign efforts the President made him Minister to Austria, a post he resigned last March to run for Governor of Pennsylvania. Last week he promised, if elected, to "go to Washington and borrow the well-known Roosevelt big stick" and crush "invisible government by lobbies" at Harrisburg. Mr. Earle's chief Democratic opponent is Charles D. Copeland, a Westmoreland County Judge. The Philadelphia Record, party organ in Eastern Pennsylvania, has damned Candidate Copeland as an anti-Rooseveltman and "Mellon's messenger boy." A Democratic ticket more comic than formidable...
...letter from the great parliamentarian Edmund Burke, indicating "grief, horror and disgust" at news of the French Revolution and surprise at the Marquis de La Fayette's failure to crush...