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...biggest group, headed by John M. Fewkes, advanced upon Chicago Title & Trust Co. which they knew holds in escrow $10,000,000 for tax payments of property owners. Leader Fewkes and a committee gained access to the bank's President Holman Pettibone. Meanwhile the teachers were trying to swarm upstairs past the guards. A policeman flourished his night stick. A teacher named Ted Farrington ducked, took a resounding blow on the neck instead of the head. He toppled and the crowd surged up to mob the guards. Women screamed, fainted. Windows crashed. Teachers hurled school books. A second teacher...
...city is plagued by the noise and dirt of starlings in winter, of sparrows the year round. To the relief of pestered inhabitants occasionally come hawks. In Hartford, Conn, last winter three hawks entertained and gratified townspeople by their daily raids on the city's swarm of starlings. Last week two "sparrow" hawks* were putting on the same kind of helpful show in Springfield...
...Crowds swarm down the midway, full of booths with popcorn, and whirling wheels; banners blazon forth the particular peculiarities of the inhabitants of the side show; and above it all, the calliope sounds the motif of a gala occasion in the life of every farmer--the state fair. Into this bucolic paradise, Abel Frake drives his Ford, his family, and his Hampshire boar Blue...
With sirens shrieking, a swarm of motorcycles shot down Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, and turned west on 57th Street. After them sped a black limousine with secret service men standing like supernumerary footmen on its running boards. A truck full of trunks followed. It was Thursday, March 2, and Citizen Franklin Delano Roosevelt was moving to the White House...
When the Depression broke over the high head of the Republican Administration in 1929, President Hoover called to the White House a swarm of bankers, financiers, businessmen, industrialists, railroaders, labor leaders, farm spokesmen. In the privacy of his study, one by one, he asked them what he should do in the economic emergency. Almost to a man his visitors told him to sit tight, keep smiling, let the tempest blow itself out. For nearly two years he followed their advice...