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...Davis, going into new country, began to use new weapons, although he did not abandon the oil scandals, the Republican tariff. His first topic was irrigation and reclamation. He cited the mis- fortune which has overtaken many settlers on irrigation projects; told how, in many cases, settlers were in dire distress because the Government's estimated cost of reclaiming their lands had been greatly increased by the time the actual project was completed. He quoted the Republican platform which recommended the curtailing of irrigation projects to prevent overproduction, and then exclaimed...
...Ogpu (secret police). The discovery of a committee to oppose the Government's grain-export policy was unearthed. This committee was engaged in exhorting the industrial workers, the railway men and the Red Army to thwart the Government, declaring that the latter was impervious to the dire distress of the hungry populace. One of its proclamations: "If the Government persists, let us respond with a general strike. Let us refuse to pay taxes. Let us defy the Ogpu's hireling bands. Let them fire on us; we shall have rifles and machine guns, too. Better to die rifle...
...referee, judges and journalists, crowded about below him, that foul play was at hand. For proof, he pointed to a sagging figure who staggered weakly over the boards, doubled up with pain. He grabbed at the staggerer's blue silk shorts, tried to rip them off and expose dire injury. This demented man was null Descamps, Manager of Georges Carpentier, French light heavyweight, arguing in his French way that the "Gorgeous Orchid Man," now a wilted frond, had been crushed by Gene Tunney with a blow below the belt in the 14th (penultimate) round of their fight for Tunney...
...that a point on the blade may travel at 500 miles an hour. The impact of a bird at such speed would be terrific, and the propeller being already strained to a high point by centrifugal force, would burst into a dozen pieces; this might cut wires and cause dire wreckage, if not complete collapse of the plane...
...eyed and determined; a face three-quarters shot away; Belgians who refused to shoot at the Germans; ten pairs of decomposing German ears; "Who will give a thousand dollars to see me dance with the policeman?" "Prohibition is no longer on experiment. It has been tried out with the dire result that it has derailed the morale of America...