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...fortnight ago the Kentucky tradition still held good in bloody Harlan County. County Attorney Elmon C. Middleton, a RePublican with apparent Laffoon affiliations, climbed into his coupe in front of his house, stepped on the starter. Instantly the machine exploded with a thunderclap went to pieces like a paper bag. Attorney Middleton died almost instantly. Experts estimated that had the other 17 sticks of dynamite under the cars hood gone off, the whole neighborhood might have been wrecked. But not one life was lost in the voting three days later...
...Simultaneously the State's Democrats saw to it that the Dark & Bloody Ground's tradition for riotous elections did not fade. In the course of their primary balloting one was killed, several injured and the Adjutant General of the State was indicted for marching his militia into Harlan County in violation of a court injunction...
...fortnight ago, the Kentucky tradition still held good in bloody Harlan County. County Attorney Elmon C. Middleton, a Republican with apparent Laffoon affiliations, climbed into his coupé in front of his house, stepped on the starter. Instantly the machine exploded with a thunderclap, went to pieces like a paper bag. Attorney Middleton died almost instantly. Experts estimated that, had the other 17 sticks of dynamite under the car's hood gone off, the whole neighborhood might have been wrecked. But not one life was lost in the voting three days later...
...special rogue's gallery, on his office wall, several ex-convicts and the notorious Gaston B. Means wormed their way on to the Bureau's rolls. Such was the sloppy and demoralized agency which, in the scandalous spring of 1924, J. Edgar Hoover was handed by Attorney General Harlan Fiske Stone, who had just succeeded Harry Micajah Daugherty, besmirched Harding crony...
CREATING THE MODERN AMERICAN NOVEL-Harlan Hatcher-Farrar & Rinehart ($3). A broad academic survey of contemporary novelists from William Faulkner to Albert Halper, together with an explanation of current techniques and trends...