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Died. The Rev. James R. Cox, 65, Pittsburgh's Roman Catholic "pastor of the poor," who set up a soup kitchen and a tar-papered "Shantytown" for depression victims, led some 10,000 of them (in 1,000 cars and trucks) in a protest march on Washington in January 1932; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Pittsburgh. On the arrival of "Cox's Army"* in Washington, Father Cox had a 20-minute chat with President Hoover (who gave "intense sympathy"), went on to form his short-lived Jobless Party, was briefly its candidate for President, gave up to support...
...walked out of the mobilization program. They were admittedly acting mainly for dramatic effect. "In no other way," said labor, "can we effectively impress upon the American people the great wrongs being perpetrated." The only labor leader left in an advisory capacity: John L. Lewis, quietly smirking and, like Tar-Baby, saying nothin...
...look for him. On the road an old car shot past at high speed, with a boy outside, on the running board. It was David. The Campbells pursued, caught up with the other car only when it slowed down. David, clad in undershorts and his body smeared with tar, was too dazed to recognize his parents...
...bruises, David told how he and four other candidates were taken into the country, forced to build a bonfire and take off their clothes. Next, reported David, the boys clipped "and pulled out" his hair, stoned him, forced him to swallow rotten eggs, smeared his head and body with tar and creosote. Finally, after a severe lashing, David was taken for his wild ride...
...Natural History put on a little show this week to make the weariest museum trudger smile: eight plaster statuettes of fabled animals. Among them were Pegasus sitting exhausted on a cloud, Leda tête-à-tête with a Donald-Duckish swan, Brer Rabbit battling the rude Tar Baby, Androcles nursing a huge, unhappy lion, and the elastic-nebbed elephant and tenacious crocodile of Kipling's Just So Stories. What the sculptures lacked in naturalism they more than made up for in naturalness...