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...Klan activities, last week developed some new reactions. Two gangs, one run by a man named Carl Shelton, the other by a rival bootlegger, Charles Birger, took a dislike to each other and pursued their differences with machine gun attacks, armored motor cars, ambuscades, profanity and murder. The first mute witness to law and order in Herrin was a human hand which reached stiffly for the sky, emerging from the shallows of the Big Saline river near Equality...
...mute witness reaching stiffly...
...heard, this time telling the defiant ones that the President had talked not of his politics, but of his personaltiy. If he choses Bruce Barton as his confidante, in preference to more inquisitive souls, that, after all, was his own business. Henceforth, however, the President was to be quite mute. Again the chatty wraith would roam Capitol Hill. The reporters went away musing, and thinking that possibly the executive was not nearly so speechless as he appeared...
...Some mute, inglorious Milton should arise...
...Some mute inglorious Milton should come hence...