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...strain of his long, losing fight caused "Emperor" Cook to collapse in the Congress Hall. He was revived and stumbled out, to collapse again upon the pavement. On a sick man's bed the fallen "Emperor of Labor" learned of the vote which means that the British Empire is now settling itself to revolve sedately on the tried and trusty pivots of King and Capital. Such is British Labor's "Diamond Jubilee...
...Bedford tasted its first grave disorder. Picketeers banged the walls of their cells, shrieked foreign curses, sang ribald songs. Outside headquarters a mob of 10,000 seemed to spring out of the pavement, hooting and jeering. Police summoned guardsmen. Strikers retreated, their faces turned aside from bayonets. New Bedford rested in an electric calm...
...demesne on an early morning of last week. Into the heart of "The Gut" had marched Prohibition Agents Irving Washburn and Wilfred Grisson, bent on arrest. Suddenly, a group swarmed from an open doorway. Guns were drawn, fired. Agent Grisson escaped uninjured. But Agent Washburn fell to the pavement, mortally wounded...
...thrown bombs. Now a wall of the O. G. P. U. building gaped with a great jagged hole. As the white clad stretcher bearers rushed within, a crowd of ambulance chasers gathered speculatively upon the pavement. Perhaps they would see the great V. G. Menzhinsky, Chief of the "Cheka," carried forth, maimed and bleeding upon a strip of canvas stretched between two poles...
...ignoring all traffic signals, deaf to the cries of spectators and the reports of the police pistols. At last, thinking he had eluded his pursuers, James Cox stopped his car at the entrance to the Biltmore Hotel, leaped out, tripped on the curb, staggered into a heap on the pavement, and cut his forehead. A policeman leaped upon him, secured a doctor to sew up the cut. The doctor, after a look at James M. Cox Jr., said that he was drunk...