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...Thereupon John Lewis settled back to let others do some talking while he cast an eye over the faces before him.** They were faces to be reckoned with, these top sergeants of a force fundamentally dedicated to class warfare. Plenty of them had been under fire. There was chunky Bill Blizzard, a delegate from West Virginia who took part in the famed Mingo March of 1921 which brought out the U. S. Army and ended in a treason trial in the same Charles Town, W. Va. courthouse where John Brown was found guilty. There was Powers Hapgood from Illinois, nephew...
...coal. To the miners he cried that if the little NRA for the soft coal industry, set up under the Guffey Bill, is declared unconstitutional, "I promise you that so far as I am concerned, the battle will continue. ... I am in this fight to a finish!'' Thereupon the miners rushed up and wrung "Joe"' Guffey's hand so vigorously that he had to nurse it for the rest...
...count the verdict something of a triumph. In fairly good spirits Counsel Leibowitz was proceeding with the case of another Scottsboro boy when the prosecution suddenly challenged written medical testimony made at the second trial by a physician now too ill to go to court and substantiate it orally. Thereupon Judge Callahan indefinitely postponed all further trials, ordered the prisoners back to jail in Birmingham...
...some $10,000,000 and a great deal of bookkeeping would be required to refund it, the Committee proposed that veterans who had paid interest on their Bonus loans should be declared out of pocket. Veterans who had shirked their interest obligations would be permitted to keep the money. Thereupon the Committee reported the Bonus Bill out three days after receiving it. Four days the bill was passed by a thumping 356-to-59, biggest vote ever rolled up for the Bonus...
...Gomez, if the regular Liberal Party put up any other candidate. Summoned in haste to advise Cuba, Princeton's President Harold Willis Dodds told the Liberals to choose between Gomez and his opponent, Carlos Manuel de la Cruz. They chose Gomez. Menocal tore his beard indignantly. Dr. Dodds thereupon drew up the final electoral code (TIME, Dec. 16). New factor was that Cuba's pious, conservative women had the vote for the first time. Meanwhile, unwilling to accept the responsibility of either holding or postponing the election, provisional President Carlos Mendieta resigned his job to his meek Secretary...