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...force and fury the northeaster was only a mild prelude to last week's hurricane by the time it crashed headlong upon storm-racked Cape Hatteras and started up the coast. Before it left North Carolina it had dragged the Diamond Shoals lightship six miles out of position, piled the four-masted schooner Kohler up on Gull Shoals. With a breeches buoy across a quarter-mile of snowy surf Coast Guardsmen took off nine men, a woman, a dog, two cats...
...seem to get loose, and Cecil Smith was hitting wild. Hopping was everywhere, his red helmet charging into every scrimmage, sometimes entirely surrounded by Western players. As the white wooden ball shot out of a scrimmage, the ponies would prance up & down for a moment of suspense, then rush headlong together. In the sixth the East was leading 8 to 7 when it added two goals. In the seventh Rube Williams, boiling to get loose, rode his pony full into Hitchcock. At the same moment Hopping rode into him. Hitchcock and Hopping rode off after the ball. Alone, Williams reeled...
...fields-transportation (the "Big Four" railroad brotherhoods, outside the A. F. of L.), building trades, printing and the theatre. The rest of U. S. industry was pretty much wide-open shop. Plant Unions. The National Recovery Act, with its collective bargaining pledge, sent the A. F. of L. rushing headlong into open-shop industries to organize its own unions before employers could corral workers into company unions. Under the law either type of union is legitimate so long as it is the one workers want. A. F. of L. organizers hurried from plant to plant, harangued prospective members, offered...
...round of visits to Rhodes Scholars in the U. S., were treated to something more than a meal at the formal dinner given in their honor at the University of Iowa. Harry Breene, Iowa City's newly elected Republican Mayor, a onetime railroad ticket agent, slipped, sprawled headlong into a fountain. He crawled out spluttering. shook water on nearby guests, fled in confusion. Nonplussed, Jacob Van der Zee. Iowa's Rhodes Scholarship committeeman, ordered the banquet to proceed. Local newspapers loyally suppressed their best story in years...
After Speaker Rainey had sworn in the membership with one thunderous oath* and the President's message had been read, the House plunged headlong into H. R. 1491, "an act to provide relief in the existing national emergency in banking." So hastily had the bill been drawn up that no printed copies of it were yet available for members. Their only knowledge of what they were being asked to approve came from a clerk's sing-song reading of the lone text which still bore last-minute corrections scribbled in pencil. Chairman Steagall of the yet unorganized Banking...