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...Kingston Daily Gleaner put it bluntest of all, in a cartoon showing Adams standing alone under a palm tree as ships labeled with names of the federation's members pull out in all directions...
This Way to Egress. In Fredericton, N.B., the Daily Gleaner printed an ad for the Bill Lynch Shows, a carnival, touting "An Extra Added Attraction, a close-up view of that strangest of all living creatures-the Two Legged...
...Kentucky National Guard gave the press better protection in the rioting at Clay and Sturgis. But, reported Mrs. Francele H. Armstrong, editor of Kentucky's Henderson Gleaner and Journal. who was herself bullied by the mob at Clay, "the climate was unhealthy for two classes of citizens-newspaper people and Negroes." Before the guard arrived, newsmen trying to approach the Clay school were run out of town, and one managed to escape while a crowd tried to overturn...
This advertisement in the Kingston Daily Gleaner threw Jamaica into an uproar. A municipal councilor's resolution asked President Roosevelt to discipline the parties responsible. The USO said it was merely supplying a place for interviews. The U.S. Base Commander, Colonel John V. Dallin, said "the individual concerned ... in no way represented [official] U.S. policy...
Nevertheless, two perfectly normal gentlemen, seldom known to do the exotic, started off last week on a Southern automobile trip. One was Speaker Nicholas Longworth, big-chested, blushing, back-slapping Republican leader of the House, natty Presidential hopeful. His gasoline buddy was C. Bascom Slemp, of Virginia, "gleaner and harvester of Southern delegations to Republican National Conventions...