Word: fronts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Toledo politicians were meditating on the possible significance of another event. Coming home to rest, also to obtain an absentee's ballot for the coming election. Postmaster General Brown found his new, freshly-painted model front-gate mail box bowled over, destroyed...
Last week Charles Stevens, U. S. dry agent, set out with friends to raid the farm of Tom Chandler, 43, north of Poteet, Tex. The farmer, sitting on his front porch, rose, picked up a gun. ''We're federal officers and you're under arrest," called Agent Stevens. Leveling his rifle at the farmer, Stevens started to rush him, tripped over a sand rut, pulled the trigger, shot the farmer through the heart, dead. Stevens had no search warrant. His raid netted a still, 19 barrels of mash, 28 gallons of whiskey. He was held...
...Angeles, a Catholic. When the cartoons were picturing me as a modern witchburner ... I called Frank (on the long distance telephone) and said 'surely you and Sarah do not believe these things of me?' With the friendly reassurance in his warm Irish voice, all my 'front' collapsed. I laughed as I paid the bill for my record long distance and most expensive...
...Golden Harvest?" Alarmist reports from the Empire's trade frontiers undoubtedly tended to weaken the employers front in Lancashire. The potent Rothermere press envisioned Germany and Japan as "likely to acquire, perhaps permanently" a huge volume of business sure to be lost by Britain in the event of a long strike. "The textile mills of Northern France are working at top speed." warned Viscount Rothermere's Daily Mail, "and they will reap a golden harvest of orders that ordinarily would go to Lancashire. . . Even Poland is reckoning on big profits...
...front cover...