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...Senator Sheppard arose, not to praise Prohibition, but in a desperate last-ditch defense of it. Waiting at the Senate door was a Repeal resolution. To keep it off the floor the little Texan cleared his throat and said...
...think of these safeguards," said Sir Samuel, "not as a stone wall that blocks the road, but as hedges on either side that no good driver ever touches, but that prevent people on a dark night falling into a ditch...
...year (TIME, Feb. 8). President Alexander Fell Whitney of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, speaking for the running crafts (engineers, firemen & enginemen, conductors, trainmen), served notice that while railway workers might agree to continue the reduced pay scale another year on Jan. 1, they would fight to the last ditch incipient demands for further reductions by railway management. Railway unionists will meet in Chicago Dec. 7 to consolidate their position before meeting with management representatives...
...swain she picks, one Wilfrid Desert, is far from being the kind of vertebra that fits into England's backbone. First and bad enough, he is a poet. To judge from a fragment which Creator Galsworthy quotes, Poet Desert rates every ounce of obloquy he gets: Into foul ditch each dogma leads. Cursed be superstitious creeds, In every driven mind the weeds! There's but one liquor for the sane- Drink deep! Let scepticism reign And its astringence clear the brain! To the Cherrells, who had sound ideas on income (which they pronounced "ink 'em") but thought...
...doorbell at the home of the three de Andrade brothers. It was answered by their Hungarian butler. Three pro-Machado bravos pushed him aside, dashed upstairs, murdered Brother Gonzalo Freyre de Andrade, Representative; Brother Guillermo, attorney; and Brother Leopoldo, engineer. Their bodies were found in a Country Club Park ditch...