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Just north of Bozeman, Mont, rears the 9,106-ft. bulk of Bridger Peak, near which years ago was started the Flaming Arrow Dude Ranch. Woodcutters and ranchers working in Bridger Peak's thick fur of timber presently heard the din of Nick Mamer's two motors. Looking up, they spotted the glistening airliner hovering in apparent difficulty over a small clearing. In a twinkling it plunged straight down, bashed its nose into the frozen ground so hard that the plane telescoped like a tin drinking cup. BOOM went the gasoline tank and instantly the wreck...
...bulging dowagers and stuffed shirts, music lovers, some in white ties, others in frayed collars, stridulous debutantes with glassy-eyed escorts, and a great dun horde which prides itself on loving music more than show but nonetheless selects the first night of the opera to hear it. The restless din of Society nearly swamped moments of the final act. It was too much for one outraged Teuton who drooped among the lower classes behind the standees' rail. "Quiet please!" he wailed over the surging strains of Artur Bodanzky's orchestra and the equally surging conversational...
...Portland furniture plants were actually being picketed for wage increases and several non-union barbershops were mussed up but these were conspicuous exceptions to local rule of labor against labor. By last week the daily din of brawling, shooting and window-smashing had reached such a pitch that the city revolted. Clamped down by Acting Mayor Robert Early Riley was a sort of mild martial law with a stiff midnight curfew and the entire police force on twelve hour shifts. Emergency authority was granted to hire more officers, buy additional arms and equipment and padlock the haunts of thugs...
Died. Prince Ahmed Seif ed Din, 60, brother-in-law to the late King Fuad of Egypt; in Istanbul. One night in 1898, Ahmed encountered King Fuad in Cairo's hotspot Native Club, accused him of hav-ing mistreated Fuad's first wife (Ahmed's sister), shot him in the throat, so that the King ever after half-coughed, half-cackled. Ahmed cracked rocks for three penitential years, was then deported to an English asylum, escaped after 25 years, has since lived quietly on the Bosphorus...
...prevented an outright monopoly of gasoline, but it "has not altered the desire of business men to combine; nor has it enabled you and me to get our gasoline at the lowest possible prices." On the arrival of NRA, "the voice of the consumer was drowned in the din, and prices were successfully raised...