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...more bitter in protest than local unemployed. Some of its members were wearing red arm bands. They stopped a coal truck and converted its load from fuel to missiles. Crash, crash, tinkle, tinkle went the first floor windows of the City Hall. Flop went a policeman felled by a lump of coal. Hiss, hiss, hiss went tear gas bombs as the police replied. When the load of coal became exhausted, sticks, stones and bottles took their place. The police used clubs...
...Mendota's hospital on Feb. 14, 1931 he was in good physical condition. Two weeks later he died, officially of bronchial pneumonia. But in the interval his wife and half-brother had seen him bound hand & foot, with two teeth knocked out, a gash over his eye, a lump on his chest and so badly bruised that he "looked like a raw piece of meat all over...
Instead, the road asked its bondholders for a one-year moratorium. All interest due this year would be paid in a lump sum in 1937. The junior creditors have already agreed to a moratorium provided holders of 75% of the first mortgage bonds also waive their claims. In a joint statement Chairman Thomas Milton Schumacher and President Charles Elsey held forth this hope: "The traffic of the railroad has shown progressive improvement for the past six months, and the management believes that if the holders of the funded debt cooperate . . . the company will be able to meet its other obligations...
...November 1917, a hard, dark chunk of a man walked round & round a team of 34 dray horses at the foot of 132nd St., Manhattan, feeding each & every horse a sugar lump. On a tremendous trailer attached to the team was a submarine which had just been hoisted out of the Hudson River. The man turned and walked down the street, the 34 horses following him. Thus, while thousands jam-packed the sidewalks, did Truckman Henry Herbermann haul the German U-boat C-5 to Central Park to be used as a speaker's rostrum for the second Liberty...
...bondholders- and the issuing bankers but also from: 1) banks engaged in financing foreign trade, 2) importers and exporters and 3) "foundations and public-spirited citizens." An annual budget of $100,000 will be raised in part by offering non-voting Council memberships to "founders" who pay a large lump sum and "contributing members" who pay yearly dues...