Word: herberts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their front scoops or fenders wired up to prevent the derailing of cars from obstacles placed on the tracks by strikers. A three-year-old girl was ground to death under a fenderless trolley. Strikers dug up a city ordinance requiring fenders in position, caused the arrest of Herbert B. Flowers, president of Public Service, 27 non-union motormen...
...chosen ground. That has just been done by a scathing Lahore publicist, Kanhaya Lai Gauba. His book is Uncle Sham.† Without pausing to tilt over India with Miss Mayo he plunges straight into an exposé of U. S. dirtiness and shortcomings. Quoting chapter and verse from Herbert Hoover, Ben B. Lindsey, Bernarr Macfadden and many another, avenging Kanhaya Lai Gauba "proves" (by half-truths as well documented as Mother India's) that U. S. citizens ought to be even more ashamed of themselves than Indians. In Uncle Sham it is blazoned that President Hoover recently said (TIME...
...Kansas City Times is wriggly, writhy, slithery snakes. An unflinching rule keeps snakes entirely out of the Times' pages- out of the news, features, fiction, comics. Other Times rules forbid mentioning or picturing rats, corpses. Journalists wonder: How would the Times report the news if President Herbert Hoover, Col. Lindbergh, Babe Ruth, Scarface Capone or Aimee Semple McPherson were bitten by a snake...
...Herbert Brown, Chief of the U. S. Bureau of Efficiency, explained that in 1926 out of 5,120 convictions under the drug act, 1,540 persons went to jail whereas out of 37,018 convictions under the Volstead Act, only 765 men received jail sentences. Plain is the picture of what would have happened had 'leggers been sentenced to prison in the same proportion as violators of other U. S. laws...
Night-time readers who, like President Herbert Clark Hoover, keep awake by perusing hair-raising stories of mystery and crime, will find a 10ądetective-story magazine...