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Robert Nelson Stanfield, onetime U. S. Senator from Oregon, was seriously injured by an automobile near Huntington, Ore. Witnesses told this story: Mr. Stanneld came upon John Stringer, foreman of a sheep-ranch, who had parked his car near where some one had cut a wire fence. An altercation arose as to who had cut the fence and whether or not it should be closed before Stringer could drive through. Suddenly Stringer climbed into his car, let in the clutch and, spurting, ran Mr. Stanfieid down...
...gates of the class of 1877 is under repair, but nevertheless will be opened in a few days, while the two easternmost gates, the 1890 and 1880 class donations, will be opened within a week, according to the foreman in charge of them...
Midnight. Last week Theatre Guild subscribers filed reverently through the Guild Theatre's handsome lobby, up the stairs past the bust of George Bernard Shaw and bumped right into a murder melodrama. For Midnight relates the tale of a law-abiding florist (Frederick Perry) who, as foreman of a jury, has sent a woman to the electric chair for killing a man. At the execution, Midnight, while newshawks are invading his home on one pretext or another to catch his reaction, the florist's daughter (Linda Watkins of June Moon) staggers in with a revolver and the tale...
...dead men lay scattered about, maimed by the explosion or torture-twisted by the gas. Nevertheless, 20 live men were found huddled in a pocket in the rock. They had built a brattice or partition of wood and canvas between them and the gas, under the leadership of Mine Foreman John Dean who, after carrying most of his companions behind the brattice, was so badly gassed he was expected to die. President Titus and his party of guests were not among the saved. He, a Yale-educated Wartime airman, aged 41, father of three, was a popular Ohio clubman...
...these principles has long been known in the laboring classes. The building trades are especially enlightened on this subject and it is the exception to find a bricklayer or mason who does not religiously observe the practice of frequent rest periods. As for the sympathetic audience perhaps the foreman could be drafted into the service and occasionally hold a confidential little tete-a-tete with the more forlorn workers under him. If Tony smashes his thumb under a sledge hammer the foreman could get him to talk about the wife and kiddies and thus get his mind off the injured...