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Although the Crimson five emerged triumphant over Bonniwell in their first tangle, the probability is strong that the one-man team from the regions of ice and snow will take their measure this time. And there will be little to measure since Long Bill Gray was added to the injury list, already comprising Captain Boys and White...
...Camel Man. Biggest asset that Franklin Roosevelt had in planning his renewal of NRA was his possession of a good midway man, Samuel Clay Williams, midway man in NRA theory, midway man (presumably) in NRA history. The one-man rule of this New Deal experiment ended with the resignation of General Johnson. It may return again to replace the present board-rule whenever President Roosevelt can find his man...
...strength of his one-man expedition is doubled when he strikes up an acquaintanceship with Perken, a German-Danish adventurer of unsavory reputation who has spent his life among the savages of the interior, and who is planning a search in those parts for a French deserter, wanted by the authorities. Together Perken and Claude find the Royal Way, eventually discover a temple with valuable bas-reliefs, which they hack off, load on their bullock-carts. Then they begin the slow fight through the jungle back to safety and fortune. First their drivers desert. Then they fall into the hands...
...Scotch Plains, N. J., John Crempa, Belgian War veteran, began the second major engagement of a one-man war against Public Service Gas & Electric Co. Eight years ago the company had part of his property condemned for a right-of-way for its power lines. He demanded $100,000. Eight hundred dollars were offered. In revenge he short-circuited the lines, costing the company a good part of $100,000. When he was jailed for six months. Public Service men offered to get him paroled if he would promise to let the company's wires alone. He refused...
Last week their suspicions of scandal caused uproar in Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin whence came Brooks's husbandless clients. Circuit Judge Frederick S. Lamb, sitting at Beulah as a one-man grand jury, summoned Brooks for questioning. Along went his adopted son Edward, a cripple who tended the herd of goats whose milk nourished the children. Along also went the wives of both men, and the orphan girl and two boys whom they were raising. Along, too, went Michigan welfare workers and State policemen who brought the accusations...