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...wise one," one after another, Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and New York automatically cancelled their reciprocal license agreements with Pennsylvania and hired Pennsylvania motor transport was banned from their highways. Hundreds of tons of fruit & vegetables had rotted around Pennsylvania's borders by the time a truce between New Jersey and Pennsylvania was reached. Pennsylvania was to enforce its new law "within reason." New Jersey would limit its license demand to "common carriers...
...itself immutable, bides its time. For six years its episcopate in Mexico has been in bitter, almost continuous strife with Mexico's Government. Grieved with what he considers persecution and what Mexican legislators call regulation, Pope Pius XI has watched in patience, hoping for peace chiefly through the truce arranged between Church and State by the late Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow. Last week Pius XI ceased to bide, uttered a sharp protest in the stately, tremulous latinity of a Papal encyclical headed Acerba animi ("bitterness of soul...
...Every veteran arrested as a rioting Red has been released for lack of evidence; three veterans indicted for assaulting police had good overseas records; not one criminal record has been turned up among the B. E. F. 4) Police Superintendent Glassford had cleared the Government buildings and a truce on rioting had been declared an hour before troops were called. 5) Empty dynamite boxes had been used .to build Anacostia shanties. 6) Out of 8,000 members of the B. E. F. the Veterans Administration found only 500 who were not veterans; expelled from the B. E. F. were some...
...Capitol, shoved out their occupants, left smoking ruins behind. By 9 p. m. the troopers had advanced to the Anacostia bridge, beyond which on the mudflats lay Bonus City, the B. E. F.'s main encampment. The camp commander rushed out waving a white shirt for a truce, asked for time to evacuate the several hundred women and children. He got an hour's grace...
...area serve 52 million people, bind together eight of the ten largest U. S. cities, with shiny roadways to the sea and world markets. For generations this empire has been a battleground wherein corporate giants fought for dominance by fair means and foul. To it last week came a truce, perhaps permanent peace, when the Interstate Commerce Commission sanctioned its partition among its four mightiest monarchs...