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Ugliest Aspect. At Eccles, in Lancashire, one Jack Piggott drew six months' imprisonment for smashing a Jewish-owned shop window and leading a crowd of 700, some of whom shouted what few Britons had ever been expected to shout: "Hitler was right." At Holyhead, a laborer was fined for smashing the windows of two Jewish shops. In London, two women arrested for pitching bricks through Oxford Street windows said: "We did it because the owner is a Jew." In Wales, signs appeared on a school wall reading: "Jewish murderers" and "Hitler was right." At Kingstanding, near Birmingham, hooligans stole...
Crowley departed, returned with a gun, shot him dead. Arrested for murder, Evangelist Crowley was hustled away lest Jonesboro's excitable Baptists cause more trouble. Last week he went on trial at Piggott (pop.: 1,885) before a jury of four Methodists, two Baptists, six nonchurchgoers. Defendant Crowley, pleading self-defense, said that the janitor pointed a gun at him. "My only impulse was to save my life and there came before me in a flash-my wife and babies. I believed my gun was my only hope." The Piggott jury deliberated three minutes, acquitted Evangelist Crowley...
...Arms a happy ending has more truth in it. A conclusion in which Catherine Barkley does not die in childbirth was made but will not be used unless cinemaddicts resent the present one. Informed by Paramount that two prints of A Farewell to Arms could be sent to Piggott, Ark. for his inspection. Author Hemingway last week replied: ''Use your imagination as to where to put the two prints ... of Borzage version of A Farewell to Arms but do not send her." Central Park (First National). Written by a New York Sun theatrical reporter, Ward Morehouse. this picture...
When glum pre-Prohibition workers of Pacific Coast Steel Co. first read upon their checks "These pay checks are made non-negotiable so that employes cannot cash them in saloons" they knew it was the work of William (Pigiron) Piggott, president of the company, bitter and active campaigner against liquor.* Mr. Piggott by the time of his death (TIME, July 29) had built up his Pacific Coast Steel Co. and its subsidiary, Southern California Iron & Steel Co., to an annual capacity of 380,000 tons-40,000 more than Columbia Steel, only complete steel unit west of the Rockies, managed...
...Other Piggott campaigning methods included a "Sermon Against Booze" on each pay statement. Typical of these was: "To the married man who thinks he cannot get along without his drinks the following is suggested as a solution to the bondage of the habit: "1. Start a saloon in your own house. "2. Be the only customer and you will have no license to pay. Give your wife $2 to buy a gallon of whiskey and remember that there are 69 drinks to the gallon. "3. Buy your drinks from no one but your wife. By the time the first gallon...