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...facts, the importance of Norman Thomas' visit to Harvard is more than an example of "opposition which ultimately aids knowledge", more than proof of the "existence of a party devoted mainly to the theoretical side of government", more than proof that Harvard is "unrestricted by the prejudice....which fears unrest and smothers disagreement." E.C. Berkeley...
Followed a century of terrific political upheaval. Tortures and carnage culminated in the massacre of 1915 which seemed to justify American intervention. For in spite of unrest, foreign financial investments had reached proportions requiring protection. America took control first of the customs, then of national finance, and virtually all other administration, with "no object in view except to insure . . . firm government by the Haitian people...
Another cause for unrest in the Chicago underworld was a special grand jury's investigation of thuggeries committed during Chicago's recent primary election. Last week the jury indicted 24 men, including State Senator James B. Leonardo and one Martin Klass, a nephew of the City Collector...
...dark unrest that lurks at the bottom of the coal industry, even at its best, broke out again last week in Mather, Pa. The Mather mine, owned and operated by Pickands, Mather & Co. of Cleveland, is one of the model mines of the U. S. In its shafts are all the modern appliances for air, light, production, safety. Run on an open-shop basis, it employs some 750 men steadily, 300 days in the year. The town is clean. The Mather men are contented...
...Another cause of unrest in Southern bosoms was the defeat of Senator Fess, Republican Keynoter, for delegate-at-large in the Ohio primary last month, by E. W. B. Curry, a Negro. Mr. Curry stood fifth in the slate of seven delegates for Candidate Hoover, which defeated a Willis slate headed by Senator Fess...