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...Grande into Texas has swept for years an unchecked tide of Mexican immigration. Throughout the Southwest great gangs of dark-skinned peons can be seen repairing tracks on the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe, plodding head down through beet sugar fields, tending endless rows of cotton, mucking about the dirtiest jobs in oil fields. In five years the U. S. has counted, on an average, 56,000 Mexicans per year coming across the border, has failed to count many a thousand more who sneaked over informally. Only one such Mexican immigrant out of a thousand becomes a U. S. citizen...
...their red chairs. Veering away from his familiar subject, Senator Blease waved a red-bound book* in his hand and declared: "I have here a book to which I might call attention. This is a book I sent to Mr. Rover's [U. S. District Attorney] office?the dirtiest thing I have ever read. I saw a young lady reading it, by accident, and asked her what in the world she was doing reading it. She had not gotten far enough into it, thank God, to see the dirty part of it. On page 97 appears this...
...banknotes clean. The Cardinal was not surprised when Commendatore Jorio asked him to leave the check (already endorsed) overnight, until the fresh bills required could be scrambled for and sorted out. Hastily, when the august robed figure of His Eminence was gone, godless Spider Jorio cashed the check into dirtiest tainted money, cashed two much larger checks also fraudulently obtained for a total of 461,534 lira, skittered...
...recent years to examine street paving in various cities from Los Angeles and San Francisco, Chicago and St. Louis, Detroit and Cleveland, to Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore. Baltimore has by far the best paved streets and the cleanest streets. Philadelphia has the worst paved and dirtiest streets, with St. Louis a close second. WM. H. THOMSON...
...Bayonne, N. J., last week disbanded its cast of 62 players, not daring to enter New York City. That was some comfort for Mr. Sumner, whose attention was further occupied last week by his $100,000 damage suit against Publisher Bernarr Macfadden's daily pornoGraphic. The Graphic, dirtiest daily in the U. S., had advocated legislation to stamp out "Comstockism and Sumnerism...