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...courts virtually nullified the Clayton Act in so far as it was supposed to protect trade-unionism from the anti-trust law. Strikes were still broken by Federal injunctions charging interstate conspiracies and monopolies. Labor leaders were still jailed without hearings for contempt. The "yellow-dog" contract spread and throve. Bitterly disappointed, union labor demanded that Congress do its job over again, enact fool-proof legislation through which hostile employers could not weave their way to the Federal courts...
Born the fourth son of Irish nobility, Arthur was sent to Eton, where he failed to distinguish himself even on the playing-fields. But he throve in the army, won his spurs in India, was promoted fast. In the Peninsular War he made his reputation, showed that French troops were not invincible. Gradually, methodically he drove Napoleon's armies back to France. A painstaking rather than a brilliant soldier, he worked his men almost as hard as he worked himself. To the daily questions: what time would the staff move and what was there to be for dinner...
...flag-waving version of "The Star Spangled Banner." In a sensational speech, Cartoonist Crosby-short, stocky, jut-jawed-had cried: "Capone . . . has one man right here in Chicago to whom he cannot sell protection nor security at any price! ... It must not be forgotten that once Babylon throve with corruption, but when the time came, God-without the loss of the universal beat-shattered it! ... Peace will come to the land-but-it will not be peddled by a gangster...
Grecian Main Street. In 160 A.D., Corinth, classic city, throve lustily. Pausanias was its Baedeker. He described a street running from the market place to the theatre. In 396 A.D., Alaric the Goth devastated the city. Ancient Corinth disappeared under tons of debris and earth. Little by little the old town is being unearthed. Theodore Leslie Shear, one of Princeton's archaeologists, has returned to the U. S. after four years of digging there. He announced the discovery of the Pausanias-chronicled street, the theatre with seats...
Scholarly analysis of genius that throve on excess of suffering...