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...foot and a half from my own. He could have pulled my hair if I had any." Motoring from Tulsa to Oklahoma City, Assistant Conductor Carlo Edwards of Metropolitan Opera was so badly injured that his right foot had to be amputated after his automobile plunged into a ditch, went up in flames. Conductor Edwards had been planning to stage grand opera in Oklahoma City next summer with Singer Harry Clarkson, who was killed in the accident...
...sink. "Don't think I'll go, the children would not take their naps this afternoon," says the Mrs. The Chewy goes at the second turn of the starter and I'm out over the cattle guard and the culvert over the first irrigation ditch. Over a second, third and fourth, all graded as the ditch beds are above the valley here. Now to step on it. First mile gone, slow down for another grade culvert, the second mile nearly a straightaway. Indian wagon raising an infernal dust is soon past. A glance to the left...
...President wants you to unionize. It is unpatriotic to refuse to unionize. Here is your union. Never mind about the dues now. Just join up!" And join up the miners did-150,000 in the first 30 days of NRA, 150,000 more since then. Here & there was last-ditch resistance by operators who tried to ram through company unions. But Leader Lewis had a long head start on them, with the result that he is now undisputed master of more than half a million working men. When NRA first began to negotiate a coal code, most operators...
Montana's Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler was knocked unconscious, suffered concussion of the brain, a bruised leg and minor abrasions, when a rear tire blew out on the automobile in which he was driving with his family to Washington, tumbling it twice over into a ditch near Glasgow, Mont...
...Kingston, Mich., about 225 mi. from Chicago, Dr. Erich Koerner & Richard Scheutz, Germans, descended into a watery ditch. At Albion, Mich., about 213 mi. from Chicago, Louise and Eleanor Hall, daughters of an Albion College professor, were summoned to interpret for two for- eigners who had come down in a balloon: Georges Ravaine & Georges Blanchet, Frenchmen...