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...bedroom the size of a scrubwoman's pail...
...unlawful for an Indian to carry a pail of sea water to his home. Although India has four of the world's best rock salt areas in the world, could locally manufacture all the salt necessary, the British government dumps some 600,000 tons in the Indian market annually, thus provides ballast tonnage for British shipping, gets $20,000,000 annual revenue from India. The monopolized salt is sold to Indians at prices sometimes 2,000% of production cost. Indian farmers who take cattle to the seashore at night to let them lick whatever salt is deposited, thereby...
...Revolution he was staff-artist for General Angeles, antagonist of Villa. Like all Mexican artists he is concerned with suffering, has dedicated his art to the martyrdom of the Revolution. Like Michelangelo, Painter Goitia studied anatomy in dissecting rooms "to see about a flagellated back." Once he poured a pail of animal's blood over his model's back to study the spots as they would really appear Painter Goitia looks like a monk, lives frugally, paints much...
William Hale Thompson, from one of the "oldest and best-known families," shouted for the "full dinner pail," refused Joffre an official welcome. In 1919 a Negro boy was stoned at a white bathing beach; next day 30 blacks were maimed in the city's worst race riot. Alfonse Capone came from New York with a scar on his face. Dean O'Banion, onetime acolyte, draft-dodger, said "Hello" to two strangers, fell slug-riddled in his flower shop. Mayor Thompson took some friends down the brown Mississippi, washed water over levees, was shot at. "Just yesterday" Capone was jailed...
...plan: to confront elementary school students with a problem requiring a moral judgment, to let the students, unaided, make their judgment. Dr. Jones relates a story such as: "When he was a child, the late great Labor Leader Samuel Gompers and his small cousin had to carry milk pails from the dairy to their farmhouse home. One day, the two boys quarreled about who should carry the heaviest pail. Neither would give in, both walked home emptyhanded. Spanked, therefore, and sent back for the milk, were Child Gompers and cousin." Then says Dr. Jones: "What would you have done?" Thereupon...