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...mobsters charged the court house twice. The no guardsmen returned tear gas for rocks, held firm. The third time the mob charged, militia officers, determined to hold the court house, ordered: "Fire!" A countryman named Pat Lawes spun around like a top, fell eight feet from the court house porch to a concrete walk below, dying. A house painter named Edwards dropped with a bullet through his chest. Two other countrymen were mortally wounded. Twenty in the mob were peppered in the legs with buckshot...
...raised pews of the Chapel made an almost perfect amphitheatre for him for nineteen years. In 1802 the chapel was divided into two stories with a staircase well added on the East or Yard side to reach the second floor. At the same time, the curious brick porch with a crenellated top seen in old engravings, was put up at the West end. The first floor was composed of two damp, ill-lighted rooms for chemical lectures and laboratory work, while the upper floor was used for anatomical lectures...
Ford. In Detroit Edsel Ford received a letter threatening death unless $5,000 was left on the back porch of a home in the city's northeast section. The money was duly left in a candy box. A tenant nearly ruined the case by picking it up by mistake. Soon, however, Edward Lickwala, 20, son of a onetime Ford worker, appeared to offer Federal agents information. He gave more information than he intended. Arrested, he quickly pleaded guilty and was sentenced to ten years in Leavenworth...
...little glimpse of the White family, battling a picayune crisis. Mother White (Lois Wilson) is so devoted to her children that she forgets about Father White (Frank Morgan) except when the furnace gets too low. When the children give a party he has to sit out on the porch. He is cooling his heels there one evening when Alice Vaile (Binnie Barnes), his onetime secretary, finds him. Presently, Father White and Alice Vaile are involved in an innocuous intrigue. On Thursday nights, he tells Mother White that he is going to the Lodge but goes instead to Alice Vaile...
What Archbishop McNicholas was able to announce on his porch last week was that, as a direct result of the Legion of Decency's campaign, the producers' jury would be abolished. Henceforth Censor Breen's staff will be increased, his powers widened so that his edicts can be vetoed only by the directors of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America. For any producer to assemble these gentlemen in executive session will be an expensive and lengthy...