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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mabel McFiggins bought $4 worth of orange stamps (in 25? denominations), good for $4 worth of any food she cared to buy at any of Rochester's 1,200 groceries. For every dollar which she spent for orange stamps, she also got 50? in blue stamps. These were premiums, given to her by the U. S. Government. They also could be "spent" at any grocery, but only for farm produce officially listed as surplus: butter, eggs, flour, cornmeal, prunes, dried beans, citrus fruits. Grocers who took Miss McFiggins' stamps, or wholesalers who accepted them as payment from retailers...
What happened last week was unique in recent Brotherhood history. To the astonishment and official indignation of the convention Cleveland newspapers published news which Alexander Whitney did not consider fit to print. They got it from Secretary-Treasurer George W. Anderson. He published a pamphlet charging that in the eleven years since President Whitney took office, B.R.T. had paid in salaries $995,542.74 more than in the ten preceding years. President Whitney's friend, T. B. Eilers, who is in charge of union insurance sales to members, was shown to have collected $429,288 "'in commissions" and expenses...
Kansas City and the U. S. then learned how rich, mighty Tom Pendergast got into so queasy a mess. According to the prosecution, Boss Tom wagered $2,000,000, lost $600,000 on horse races in 1935 alone. "It has been a mania with him," said Defense Attorney (and Democratic County Chairman) John G. Madden. Lawyer Madden pleaded heart trouble as reason for a light sentence: "Imprisonment would mean death. He can't survive if he enters a cell . . . . Here we have death in life. . . . I ask the utmost clemency...
Fifth Day. It was not until the trip's fifth day, however, that Their Majesties really got taken to Canada's heart, and when they did, it was to experience a spirit they had not met before, a hearty blend of U. S. hail-fellowship and a reassuring, yeoman love of King and Country that was truly British. This man-to-man meeting occurred in Connaught Square at the unveiling of the Canadian national war memorial. There was a reveille, the King placed a wreath at the foot of the shaft, tall redcoats holding standards stepped away...
...among friends." A blind veteran who last looked on the world at Vimy Ridge, a war nurse, a mother of two sons killed in action, empty sleeves, a typical group, rallied around. The King and Queen met them all, embraced them all, obviously loved it. Finally they got into their cars, stood up well above the bullet-proof glass to wave goodby, and were driven away. Only then did Scotland Yard and Canada's constabulary breathe easy again...