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...process was repeated for the next two days until arrival of strikebreakers imported from New Jersey. They managed to put together an eight-page printed edition of the Republican, but not until four strikebreakers and one striker were mauled, linotype machines battered by vandals and advertisement forms destroyed. A truckload of rotogravure sections from New York was hijacked, burned. Next day all four papers reverted to the typewriter and photo-engraving plant for most of their pages...
...also a doctor father. They live quietly in Southport, Conn, with their two children who are seldom sick. Like most serious artists who do not need to sell their works to live Sculptor Taylor has no eye for publicity. The day before her exhibit opened she dumped a truckload of statuary at the gallery door, hurried back to her Southport studio, has not returned to her show since...
What had drawn the Democratic high command of Pennsylvania to such a bleak spot was a political massacre. On Election Eve in the tiny mining town of Kelayres, 600 Democrats hopeful of ending a 20-year Republican rule in their township decided to parade. A truckload of children and a man carrying a U. S. flag led a torchlight procession four blocks up the main street to the intersection where Republican Boss Joseph Bruno and his relatives have houses on three corners. On the fourth corner stands the Church of the Immaculate Conception...
Documents were brought into court by the truckload. But the most staggering evidence the Government produced was its formula to prove that Corporation Securities' stock was worthless, when in 1931, after announcing a net income of $8,000,000 for the preceding year, it continued to pay dividends because "the defendants were at all times keeping up representations to the public that the company was sound and the stock a good buy." Burden of proof lay in two algebraic equations which the court found chalked on a blackboard one morning. The equations...
...take long to find some of them. Police chased the athletic coach of Madrid University around the campus and finally cornered him and a truckload of cartridges, flame projectors and machine-gun belts. Other caches were found almost everywhere the police looked...