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...League of Nations is being secretly used for the interests of Imperialism," cried Mr. Morrison at Hackney, "then our Party must be free to make a new declaration superseding that of the Trades Union Congress. Labor can give no blank check of approval to this Government. We are not interested in the struggles of rival imperialisms [British & Italian], and we are not going to be drawn into them...
...thousands people poured into Jacksonville (pop.: 7,000), "tomato capital of Texas," to see Queen Billye Sue Hackney crowned. A parade two miles long, with 25 floats, took one hour to pass through its streets. Trumpets blared across the baseball field, pages and ushers bowed and scraped as the Queen, escorted by the Royal Court of the Tomato, stepped up on a platform, and Jacksonville's Mayor Acker slipped a crown of jewels over her head. Jacksonville danced and drank far into the night at the Queen's Ball, and next day 5,000 farmers went...
Herbert Stanley Morrison, who set an example for the Empire, is a onetime errand boy and telephone operator who grew up to be Mayor of suburban Hackney in 1920. Serving two terms in the House of Commons, he was Laborite Minister of Transport (1929-31). Since the fall of the Labor Cabinet he has concentrated on London city politics. Nowadays, despite his beliefs, he appears as correctly clad as any stockbroker, proudly carrying the Londoner's traditional furled umbrella. It was not always so. In 1929, three months after he became His Majesty's Minister of Transport...
Sheriff of Fayette County is Harry Hackney who, to hold his job, must stand in well with the mine operators. When Fayette disorders reached the front page. Governor Pinchot proposed to Sheriff Hackney the same remedy he successfully used week before in the Lansdale hosiery strike: let the sheriff withdraw his deputies and turn their job over to the State police. Sheriff Hackney refused, whereupon Governor Pinchot marched his soldiers into the county. Said he: "The miners have the right to organize, to picket peacefully and to assemble in meetings. . . . The mine operators have a right to protection of their...
...jumping events were distributed most of the best U. S. show horses: Mrs. Florence F. Dibble's veteran Flowing Gold, winner in the class for large saddle horses; Mrs. John Hay Whitney's string of dappled grey hunters; Mrs. William C. Cox's bay gelding hackney pony Cassilis Mighty's Mite, who won the Killearn Farm Challenge Trophy; Mrs. Paul Moore's famed Seaton Pippin, world's champion hackney. Interest in the jumpers centered this year on the Irish Free State's string. Outstanding jumper from Ireland was Shannon Power, a 5-year...