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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus last week did Jesse Harding Pomeroy, long ago killer of little children, get his first view of a modern world. He was being transferred to the State Farm at Bridgewater. Fifty-three continuous years in jail, 41 of them in solitary confinement, Convict Pomeroy has served a longer life term than any other living U. S. prisoner...
During the Republican National Convention at Kansas City last year, Claudius Hart Huston, Chattanooga businessman, sat in a Muehlebach Hotel room, kept in touch with New York and Washington by long distance telephone, whispered important things to onetime Governor James Putnam Goodrich of Indiana, behaved in a manner which led many to suppose that he was putting over the Hoover nomination singlehanded, was preparing to direct the whole Hoover campaign. Such was not the case in 1928, but it may be in 1932. Last week, betting in the capital was 2-1 that this affable "whitecollar" politician from the South...
...last campaign, the unstinted faith and support of my many Catholic friends is the best reply. . . . The man most responsible for securing my appointment is Frank Doherty, of Los Angeles, a Catholic. When the cartoons were picturing me as a modern witchburner ... I called Frank (on the long distance telephone) and said 'surely you and Sarah do not believe these things of me?' With the friendly reassurance in his warm Irish voice, all my 'front' collapsed. I laughed as I paid the bill for my record long distance and most expensive...
...Long lines of omnibuses with the flags of 71 nations bristling in the wind, moved slowly through Birkenhead, England, passed through streets packed with hand-waving townsfolk to Arrowe Park, where there were broad green fields, freshly-cleaned parade grounds, stately trees. There the great flag-decked omnibuses deposited boys in khaki-colored uniforms, each with bundles, and a pack upon his back. Soon tents, 40 acres of them, had sprung up in neat, army-like rows...
...ceased to spin and weave. Their grievance was specific, precisely stated. The mill owners had announced a 12½% wage cut. That would pare the average wage of each male Lancashire breadwinner from a pitiful 47 shillings ($11.08) weekly to a scandalous 41 shillings ($9.84). Sisters, wives and mothers, long since driven by necessity to eke out the family income by working in the mills, would get not 30 shillings ($7.20) but 27 shillings ($6.48), for a week's skilled labor with trained and nimble fingers...