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...Becker claimed that his forehead injury had been certified by a doctor as having been caused by a harder object than a fist, said he had filed insult-&-injury charges against Minister Earle just for the looks of the thing...
...become a matter of great concern that the men and machinery that make steel should keep going. The U. S. watched and kept its fingers crossed against the time it might have to make a fist. Let there be no stoppage of work. By stoppage, the U. S. people meant strikes. Let there be no strikes. If there were strikes for any except good reasons, the U. S. people would hold organized labor to blame...
...trial. Once he asserted that Kansas City's syphilitic prostitutes, instead of being locked up in institutions, were being taken to the edge of town and turned loose. When the mayor challenged the charge, the police commissioners backed up Dr. Birkhead in public. The mayor, infuriated, brought his fist down on the table with a crash, exploded "By God!" and fell dead. Since then Dr. Birkhead has had to go easier on his opponents. But last week, claiming that there were 15 to 20 million pro-Nazis in the U. S., and not enough people "howling" for democracy...
...British trades-union movement, rushed to Scotland for a string of speeches against Communism. The working-class districts of Glasgow and Edinburgh are the noisiest in Britain, and there Orator Bevin was fiercely heckled by workers, who jumped up at his meetings and gave the Communist clenched-fist salute. In his roaring rebuttals Big Ernie went further than any other present British Cabinet member to speak his mind about Communism...
Last week another Mississippi editor, hot-tempered Major Fred Sullens of the Jackson Daily News, who last spring got into a fist fight with Mississippi's Governor in a Jackson hotel (TIME, May 13), wrote: "Genial, kindly, softspoken, lovable Joe Dale! If the community he so long and ably served . . . does not come to his rescue in this grave crisis of his life, then its people are utterly devoid of any sense of human gratitude. And if they don't do it, Joe, here's telling you the brethren of the Mississippi press will certainly...