Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Feeling ran high in Niagara Falls. The Elks met and a mass meeting of citizens was planned. Coast Guardsmen Glenn Jennings and Chris Dew were held by the State police, the former perhaps for murder. In Washington, the Prohibition Bureau was badly embarrassed. Only that week, Agent Robert L. Taylor had had to be dismissed in West Virginia for shooting into an automobile. Before that there was an outcry from Canadians who complained that U. S. rum guards had fired across the boundary line at Detroit. Near Fresno, Calif., one Frank Aiello was lately shot dead for not stopping...
...years, Mr. Burkitt arose as a giant of the people. He contributed a series of letters to the Jersey Journal on the subjects of city bonds and citizens' taxes. He signed himself "The Jeffersonian Democrat" and soon became a noted public character. When he called for a mass meeting, 1,500 citizens turned out. Then he began attending sessions of the Jersey City Commission, over which Mayor Hague presides...
...book, dealing with the astronomy, geology and biology of the earth's creation, is far more satisfying than the second. The chapters which take the world up to the dawn historic civilization are written convincingly, with graphic power. There is no diminution of strength later, but the mass of fact and conflicting forces which makes up modern history does not lend itself to sketchy treatment. To dismiss the Renaissance and the Reformation in sixty pages is not easy, but with his evolutionary theme supplying the background the author handles the task without smacking too much of the encyclopedia. For study...
...years after the Declaration of Independence, Samuel Phillips founded a boys academy at Andover, Mass. Throughout one hundred and fifty years his legacy to the youth of America has grown and prospered. At all times in the course of its long history Andover Academy has held undisputed rank among the best, as well as the earliest, of American preparatory schools...
Across to Singapore. Two seagoing sons of Jeremiah Shore of Paradise Cove, Mass., take a voyage to Singapore. One of them, ugly Mark (Ernest Torrence), becomes marooned with drink and Chinawomen, forgets his fiancée (Joan Crawford). The other son, handsome Joel (Ramon Novarro), is brought home in chains by the villainous members of the crew, who tell his father that he deserted Brother Mark. That is a lie. To vindicate himself, Brother Joel again sails to Singapore to fetch Brother Mark with the aid of Brother Mark's fiancée. After much skullduggery on land...