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...phone and telegraph wires were cut, barricades of felled trees laid, trenches dug across the roads. When General O'Duffy and his faithful troops arrived (hopping the ditches), they found the Irish Republicans in command of the town, marching and countermarching in the streets, directing traffic with a flourish of their hurleys.* Inspector Neville of the Civic Guards chased out the Republicans with a baton charge...
According to the missionaries, not only is opium grown and consumed without restriction in six provinces (see map), but elsewhere and in provinces where it is barred by law bootleg opium and smok-easies flourish. More serious, illegal "taxes" are collected on opium in many places, graft and corruption flourish on the weed...
President Bacigalupi's election statement contained a flourish of humility: "My decision to accept is based entirely upon an abiding attachment to our splendid institutions and organizations, conceived and founded by A. P. Giannini, and upon an ardent desire to contribute my best endeavors toward the continued success of our undertakings. . . . I have no delusions regarding my ability to contribute anything of an extraordinary nature...
Hard-boiled Argentine reason for the embargo: an "infant industry" producing Paraguay tea in Argentina has been started in the past few years, gives employment to some 50.000 Argentine laborers. Amid present "depressed conditions" the native and foreign yerba mate industries cannot both flourish. It seems best to knife the adult neighbor to save one's own child...
...Last week H. M. Prajadhipok, King of Siam, had his 37th birthday. With customary flourish of formality the State Department despatched to Bangkok a cablegram, signed Herbert Hoover, in which "sincere felicitations on behalf of the American people" were extended. Next April President Hoover will receive King Prajadhipok, traveling incognito to save money and needless ceremony, when he comes to the U. S. for the removal of a cataract in Manhattan...