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...prosy Reed Smoot, who stood on the floor swinging columns of statistics, ponderously trying to hit the gadflies of the opposition, one of whom, with the most biting sting of all, was Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi. Last week Senator Smoot was in far off Utah serving as a pillar of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.* And Pat Harrison, no longer cast as a gadfly, had to play the heavy, as Chairman of the Finance Committee had to try to hold in check a Senate suddenly eager for taxes, taxes, more faxes. Sometimes the Progressives...
Eight miles away the freighter Tsinan turned about and guided by the pillar of fire ascending to the sky made for the scene. The British destroyer Wishart, warned by wireless, arrived under forced draft at 8 p. m. Cautiously maneuvering through the murk her commander, with magnificent seamanship, brought the bow of his ship against the bow of the fiery Fulton, held her there while the remainder of those aboard the Fulton leaped to safety. A Filipino cook boy broke a leg, an electrician hurt his spine. Six others had lesser injuries but before morning all the Fulton...
...their revolvers. Suddenly they could stand no more. Bang, bang! Tejeda's jaw froze. He ducked. The 25 stalwarts leaped to their feet. Bang, bang! Tejeda turned, sprinted for cover. The 25 turned with him. sprinted into the line of fire. Tejeda dodged and twisted from door to pillar. The 25 dodged and twisted with him. Bang, bang! Nicks suddenly appeared in the plaster wall beside Tejeda who ducked back. Shouting, running, stopping and fir ing, the 100 "regulars" came on in fierce pursuit. But always a dodging, criss crossing screen of men ran between them and Tejeda...
...received a prison sentence it would almost surely be a death sentence. The real crime of which Insull is guilty is not of fraudulently manipulating securities but of doing it unsuccessfully; and the energies of the government should not be concentrated on driving a sick man from pillar to post but on remedying the system of which he was merely a typical and unfortunate product...
...slightest whims would be instantly accommodated by the precise and fluent machinery of the nation's best-known hotel. Fifteen minutes later something went wrong. The hors d'oeuvres ceased to arrive. Famed Oscar's dishes failed to appear. Wine bottles stopped popping. The Waldorf, that pillar of bourgeois good-living, had temporarily ceased to function. With a feeling akin to that felt in Moscow, March 1917, the Waldorf's dinner guests quietly left...