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...volumes on American history formerly kept in the Chicago public libraries and which "Big Bill" ordered withdrawn from circulation and immediately destroyed by fire. Professor Muzzey could not refer directly to the existing situation because he has a suit for libel pending against Mayor Thompson and has been forbidden by his lawyers to refer to the case for publication...
...doubtful world that the interests of this country are anything but imperialistic. But if the United States treatment of South America where the investments of her citizens exceed the total of those placed in Europe is not imperialistic. It is a form of aggressive and armed commercialism. Foreign nations, forbidden themselves to interfere, have sneered at what they choose to call a hypocritical, forceful exploitation of weaker nations by America in her role as the Monarchy of Big Business. "It is better for peoples to make their own mistakes," said the President, but the South American countries are not allowed...
Governor Sampson held an inaugural ball at the executive mansion, where dancing had been forbidden all during the Fields administration...
...people is imme- diate and complete disarmament. . . . The disarmament commission [of the League of Nations] is merely decorative and has not advanced disarmament a single step. . . . Should our plans for complete World disarmament seem too complex, at first, that is because complete disarmament has always been treated as a forbidden subject and has never been thoroughly dealt with...
...strike "took." Some 4,000 men walked out at once. Some 3,500 joined them later. The I. W. W. took great care to use peaceful methods. Weapons were forbidden. U. S. flags, usually carried by children, headed their processions. Women joined the marches to mines which were still operating, notably a Mrs. Santa Bernash of Trinidad, whose most famed exploit was scratching and rumpling some guards who tried to detain her at a bridgehead near Ludlow.* Her followers pitched two of the guards into Bear Creek. She was arrested, jailed, and to take her place at the marching picketers...