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...last spring straw polls showed him far and away the leading candidate for the nomination. California's conservatives got the jitters. Then San Francisco's general strike???in which Sinclair took no sides? brought a conservative reaction, how great no man knew. Last week, the jittery conservatives hoped that Upton Sinclair might not win the nomination, but from the standpoint of showmanship it did not matter. He had conducted a superlative campaign, original, dramatic, gripping. Hollywood's best director could not have done better...
...bore. The East India Company was glad to get rid of such an embarrassingly spectacular servant. Her Majesty's Government grudgingly gave him poor, unimportant consular posts?Fernando Po, Damascus, Trieste?afraid of what he would do. In his last post (Trieste) the aging adventurer made his only lucky strike???a translation of the "Arabian Nights," The Thousand Nights & A Night, which brought...
Rongus resembled Samson in physique and simplicity. He was soon lost in admiration of Barzor's guile and determination, did exactly as he was told. By a complicated chain of cunning schemes they fomented unrest in Jerusalem, lured the Roman forces far from the city and were about to strike???when their necessary figurehead, the man who was to head the revolt, fell fatally ill. Then everything turned against the conspirators; the priests of the Temple made peace with Pilate; the Roman army from Syria arrived; Barzor and Rongus were captured, quickly condemned to death...
...feng. Sun knows that all this while trained spies and agitators have crept in advance of the Nationalist army into Shanghai by twos and threes. Their propaganda, mostly in English, has taken good effect. Last week all transport workers of Shanghai and the employes of several mills went on strike???prepared to revolt and join the Nationalist army when it should draw nearer...
...second thought he appointed a committee to mediate in the strike???a committee of which he was a member, as also two generals of the state militia, his Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of the New Jersey State Federation of Labor (the strikers are not affiliated with the Federation of Labor). Later the two military men were removed on the strikers' protest...