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...Second Seminole War continued actively for seven years, cost the Government 1,500 men and $40,000,000, drove most of the tribe to a miserable existence in Indian Territory. A stubborn few could not be dislodged from Florida's swamps. Their descendants, some of whom intermarried with Negroes, now number nearly 600. Routed by whites from every desirable acre, they are now scattered deep in the Everglades and Big Cypress Swamp. They live in evil-smelling thatched shacks perched on stilts, fish in the Everglades' black sluggish waters, hunt deer and wild turkey, make a little cash...
...Relief agencies contribute to these people . . . where blanket rules permit. . . . Ignorance and stubborn reserve frequently cause the most needy families to refuse medical aid or food to satisfy their want. Cases have been reported in which blankets and like articles, sorely needed by the sufferers, have been sold as soon as they were received from relief agencies...
...state legislature is foolish enough to pass such a bill any attempt to arouse public opinion against it will but entrench them more firmly in their stubborn support; especially if the propaganda employed is so ridiculous as to construe the bill as a direct attack against all laborers. Obviously the only intelligent course of action is to await the arrival of a test case, or better still, create a test case, and push it to the Supreme Court. The opposition of ignorant propaganda to ignorant propaganda will inevitably produce a stupid mess...
With Welshman David vowing to stump all Britain with his Deal, Scot James Ramsay MacDonald faced vociferous boos in his coal mining constituency, Seaham. Apropos of his bolt from Labor to found the National Government, the stubborn Prime Minister retorted to catcalls and hisses thus...
...trying to decentralize the vastest concentration of industry the world has ever seen by establishing small accessory plants in rural districts where workers can live on the land. He and his lady are seen more frequently at Detroit social functions. His spat with the Administration over his stubborn refusal to sign the Automobile Code is forgiven & forgotten...