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...Negro slaves bought from the British. In 1818, while Florida still belonged to Spain, General Jackson led his troops against them in the First Seminole War. Three years later, U. S. purchase of Florida sent a flood of white squatters over the Seminoles' lands. The Federal Government helped shunt the Indians south to swamps and sand dunes. Whites stole their cattle and Negroes, kept up a continuous outcry to have them driven out altogether. In 1832 the Government persuaded some of the Seminole chiefs to sign a treaty promising mass emigration to Arkansas within three years...
...what could they do? San Quentin Prison, jutting into the Bay 10 miles above San Francisco, had space for only 3,000 inmates. Crammed into it were nearly 6,000, world's biggest prison population. Only way the Board could make room for new prisoners was to shunt old ones out as fast as they could. Meantime those remaining stirred like cattle squeezed in a ship's hold. A score had lately been sent to dungeons for riot & rebellion. Pondering their problem, the boardmen and Secretary Mark Noon adjourned to Warden James B. Holohan's house...
...blatant strains of "Minnie the Moocher" faded into memories, there was a bustle backstage and the maestro of the Hi De Ho strode into his dressing room. His valet, a self-styled "secretary," was taken aback to find before him the CRIMSON reporter whom he had hoped to shunt aside for the last three days, with ominous threats and dark leers...
...political cardsharper . . . [but] follows the play rather than any system." Roosevelt likes to talk, says the Observer, has no sense of the passage of time. One of the periodic jobs of his secretaries is to break up Cabinet meetings when they have reached the story-telling stage, shunt the President off to his next appointment. Mrs. Roosevelt, "the most natural and energetic person . . . who has lived in the White House in generations," gives herself so much to do that "even today, at the age of 49, she often moves at a trot." Though "extraordinarily ignorant and even gullible...
...decrease is due in part to a not unjustified distrust of this country as the "Colossus of the North," but it can also be attributed to sober economic causes. Constantly rising tariff walls, some necessary for the protection of United States industry and some purely arbitrary, have served to shunt an unwonted amount of Latin American commerce into European ports. The present difficulty of getting foreign monetary exchange, due to the instability of the dollar, is the immediate cause of an almost complete paralysis of trade with the countries below the Equator...