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Meanwhile in California a longer and louder wrangle over off-shore oil wells was settled, at least for several years to come, when Governor Merriam signed a bill for leasing State-owned oil land under the sea near Huntington Beach.* A legislative headache in California for years, this strip of tideland holds natural gas and oil worth about $500,000,000. At one time the State tried leasing it to oil companies which did their drilling from piers built out through the surf. Opposition came not from fishermen but from bathers who found oil scum all over their beaches. They...
...Mayor [of Detroit] and the Governor [of Michigan] have not said they could not handle the situation," returned Senator Bailey, "but actions speak louder than words. They have not handled...
When the opera ended the audience sat stunned a moment, then rose and cheered for ten minutes, louder and longer than any Manhattan concert audience had done since Toscanini left last spring. Much of that applause was meant for Rosa Pauly...
Some of the bunch were consciously ambitious, felt themselves capable of big things; all of them were determined to do better for themselves than their parents had. Their tastes soon began to differentiate them. Runt Plotkin, toughest of the crowd, embarrassed them by his actions with girls, which spoke louder than their lewd chatter. He drifted off to become a precocious hack-driver. First of the bunch to go further than the universally-allowed petting were Estelle and Sol, the chesty athlete. That went on till they got a scare, then they broke...
Today few U. S. citizens are louder in praise of Joseph Stalin than that emotional but influential lecturer and journalist, Dr. Anna Louise Strong. Yet on Sunday, May 24, 1925, she wrote in the New York Times: "Now that Lenin is dead, Leon Trotsky remains the most popular man in the Soviet Republic. . . . Russia's best organizer . . . Trotsky is more popular throughout Russia not only than any other man but than the whole of the Central Committee" of the Communist Party whose General Secretary was then, as now, Joseph Stalin...