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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Anthracite," said Mr. Hammond, "has always been a fetish in New England until the last year or two." "Too long," said Governor Fuller, "our section of the country has stuck to anthracite while other sections never use it." "Anthracite" said Mr. Hammond, "is a luxury and not to be indulged in at too great a cost. We have plenty of substitutes" ?meaning bituminous (soft) coal, coke, fuel-oil. That was the lesson Governor Fuller desired to have expounded...
this endeavor gathered formerly on that section of the melodramatic horizon managed by Rex Beach. He wrote of the Klondike and dance-hall nights; of the pure girl and the older blonde who loved the same man; of murmuring wastes of pine and snow. His men are all pure in their later incarnation; none of the boys would think of swearing at Rouletta or feeding her whisky...
Five years ago Perry had taken his instrument East, dreaming of finding oil close on the edge of a vast industrial section. He had convinced two Rhode Island worsted merchants of the instrument's efficacy, had induced them to spend (up to last week) some $400,000, leasing 12,000 acres and sinking a test drill. All this in secret. Said one of the promoters: "This is just our little baby. We don't want people to laugh...
...appeared under Instructress Hernan's name in the Hearst Press: I met Mrs. Coolidge at Washington last winter and when I came to Swampscott this summer I met her again at the swimming pool at Little's Point, a private pool owned by the residents of that section of Swampscott. Only ten families are privileged to see Mrs. Coolidge while she is bathing...
Deputy Giovanni Amendola, leader of the Aventine Opposition, took it into his head last week to take the waters at Montecatini, near Lucca in Tuscany. But it never occurred to him that that section of Tuscany was homogeneously Fascist. Not long after he had entered the hotel, swarms of Black Shirts scooted down the mountains, congregated before Signor Amendola's hotel, groaned, booed, hissed. Finding little satisfaction in this, the crowd began to surge backward and forward, like a busy battering ram, in an effort to break the police cordons thrown round the building. Eventually several Fascisti dashed...