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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Snores of ten textile strikers, abed in the Gastonia, N. C.,* headquarters of the National Textile Workers Union, ceased abruptly early one morning last week when the snorers were nudged awake by revolvers in the hands of a band of masked men. Out into the street the sleepy strikers were marched to the tune of random shots. With crowbar and sledge hammer the invaders-several scores of them, it was too dark to count accurately-set about wrecking the flimsy frame building. Window glass crashed out upon the street and through the aperture went sailing the union's membership...
...wind-vane on the Delaware & Hudson Building in Albany, N. Y., is a miniature of Hendrick Hudson's good ship Half-Moon. Early one morning last week this vane stood very still. It was a fine calm morning, but the Hudson River at Albany was not calm. By the pier of the Albany Yacht Club, the river's grey-green surface had been transformed into dirty, bubbly whipped cream. A fleet of 133 little launches, each with an outboard motor attached, was milling about, racing its engines, darting hither and yon like a swarm of noisy water beetles...
...years ago, Rev. Sturges Allen, then 73, Father of the Order of the Holy Cross (strict Episcopal Monastic Order at West Park, N. Y.) asked permission of the then Bishop of Liberia, Rt. Rev. Walter Overs, to join the Liberian mission. Because of Father Allen's age, Bishop Overs refused...