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...retaliation for the company's petition for an injunction, the union then carried its sit-down technique one step further, took full possession of the offices, refused to let officials enter at all and prevented the delivery or dispatch of company mail. Only thing the strikers did not seize was the company's officials themselves. These announced that they would attend to as terms." At least 500,000 Britons should now be rushed out as new farmers onto the Kingdom's land as a rearmament measure, according to Mr. Lloyd George last week, but Mr. Chamberlain...
Last week in St. Louis, death from heart failure came to John T. Rogers of the Post-Dispatch and ended the career of the last authentic Star Reporter of national renown. Fifty-five when he died, Reporter Rogers had worked on the Post-Dispatch for 20 years, on other papers for 13 before that. If his exploits are made the basis for a melodramatic newspaper film, the script will require the addition of no synthetic excitement, for Reporter Rogers' professional life was as adventurous as they come...
...housewife. In high & low circles, friendly Rogers had hundreds of confidential contacts, known in newspaper shops as "pipelines." So persuasive was he that he sometimes was able to mesmerize criminals into confessions which made jailing or hanging evidence for the prosecutor as well as scoops for the Post-Dispatch...
...middle 1920s, when Charles Birger and his gunmen were terrorizing "Bloody Williamson" County in southern Illinois. Impressing the Birger mob by his revolver marksmanship on empty beer bottles, Reporter Rogers became so chummy with a thug named Arthur Newman that in 1927 Newman confessed to the Post-Dispatch how he and Birger had murdered State Policeman Lory Price and his wife. Officials had never been able to find Mrs. Price's body; Rogers' revelations located it in an abandoned mine shaft. Newman was jailed for life. Charlie Birger went to the gallows...
...Each year the masters of Merton College, Oxford, dispatch from the Hythe police station in rural Kent the Hythe Tithe Expeditionary Force, whose duty is to collect for Merton from each farm one-tenth of its harvested crops, one-tenth of its yearly litter of hogs, sheep, cows and chickens...