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Public feeling in Buncombe County, N. C., was high against Wallace B. Davis, president of the collapsed (Nov. 20) Central Bank & Trust Co. of Asheville. So a jury from neighboring Haywood County was called in to try him. Co-defendants in the case were famed Col. Luke Lea of Nashville, his son Luke Lea Jr., 23, and Col. Lea's associate E. P. Charlet...
...Embalmed Lenin lies in an underground room 30 ft. square and 30 ft. high on a slab of black granite, under a convex bubble of glass. Just behind the tomb are the bodies of the Soviet "apostles" including two from the U. S.: John Reed of Harvard, Big Bill Haywood of Chicago. To correspondents, Architect A. G. Schuse explained his design: "For five years we have waited for a perfect design for Lenin's mausoleum but none has been forthcoming. All that time I have worked to improve the original design. ... I made hundreds of' sketches, plans...
...Chicago pseudartist; Charley Anderson, mechanic from Fargo, N. Dak. And here and there, in a kind of chorus to the whole action, are prose-poem biographies of big men of the day-written half like news paper obituaries, half like Whitman poems: Eugene Victor Debs, "Big Bill'' Haywood, Luther Burbank, William Jennings Bryan, Minor Cooper Keith (founder of the United Fruit Co.), Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Alva Edison, Charles Proteus Steinmetz, "the most valuable piece of apparatus General Electric had"; Robert Marion La Follette...
...nearly all, that is said is true, and by speaking the truth you very fortunately place yourself on the liberal side. I believe I like your publication quite as much as I do my old friend the Nation. Thank you a thousand times for your article on Bill Haywood, in May 28 issue...
...late U. S. citizen thus honored was famed William D. ("Big Bill") Haywood, once a renowned I. W. W., later the most prominent American actively associated with the Soviet State...