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...coasts of Oregon and Washington toward the Pribilof Islands, their mating grounds, the U. S. sends its Coast Guard to escort them, allows them to be killed only by aborigines in canoes, using spears and harpoons. Last spring Indians killed 2,000 of a herd of over a million and thus collected their lawful share of the sealing rights. In the summer natives of the Pribilof Islands are hired by the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries to drive inland thousands of bachelor bull seals, knock them over the head, stick them through the heart. Down to St. Louis...
...matter of still deeper humiliation to me that we Hindus regard several million of our kith and kin as too degraded even for our touch. I refer to the so-called untouchables...
...Bank. Chairman Mortimer Norton Buckner of the New York Clearing House Committee and Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt of the State have talked long, often and seriously. The conversations have extended to 22 great banks, including Speyer & Co. and J. P. Morgan & Co. The conversations ended with promises of a million dollars from each bank and the choice of Mr. Gibson as the man to handle the money...
...largest in the world. On 3,992 acres, in plantations located in seven States they propagate fruit trees, roses, shrubs. In France, too, they maintain nurseries. They employ nearly a thousand men and women. About 15.000 commission salesmen represent them. Every year they ship some five million fruit trees and plants to all parts of the world. Thirty-five years ago in Iowa they discovered the original Stark Delicious Apple. Each year they discover new and better fruit. It was their Golden Delicious Apple which gave first impetus to the Buy- An-Apple Campaign to help the unemployed...
When Banker Brown bought the Herald and Post in 1924, merging them the next year, his ambition was to challenge the longtime dominance of the Courier-Journal and Times, published by Judge Robert Worth Bingham. He poured nearly five million dollars into the combined papers, did make a fairly potent political mouthpiece. But he could not shake the traditional supremacy of the Courier-Journal, achieved in the days of the late great Editor "Marse Henry," Watterson. After BancoKentucky's crash, Publisher Brown started an economy regime in the Herald-Post. An inferior paper was the result. Last December...