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...hills of Kentucky's Harlan County, one day three years ago, a crusading prosecuting attorney named Elmon Middleton climbed into his coupe, stepped on the starter, blew himself to Kingdom Come. One of 18 sticks of dynamite wired to his engine had gone off. That "accident" and a whole bumper crop of anti-labor sluggings, shootings and gaggings made Harlan's rich coal veins throb with miners' blood. Last year, the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee tried applying a tourniquet; but bloody Harlan proved hemophilic...
...HARLAN T. STETSON
Since sunspot behavior is irregular, it is sometimes impossible to tell that a peak or a trough has been passed until many months afterward. At a summer meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Ottawa last week, Dr. Harlan True Stetson of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, reported that the peak of the current cycle had been reached and passed in July 1937. The spots are now on the downgrade therefore, and the world can look forward to a minimum of magnetic storms and to uninterrupted radio communication for four or five more years...
...Passed the Harlan Bill providing that Government horses and mules which have become unfit for service may, instead of being sold, be destroyed or pensioned out to pasture; sent it to the White House...
...framing one of the now classic documents in the constitutional history of the U. S.- the adverse report of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on the bill for the re-organization of the Federal judiciary." Meanwhile, University of Chicago gave an honorary doctorate of laws to liberal Justice Harlan Fiske Stone...