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...highly inflammable construction deemed good enough for the trade of immigrant steel workers, have pledged $10,000 to pay some wages to remaining firemen. The council, too, voted to discharge the entire police force, sad-eyed Police Chief B. J. Gillen with his 16 aids.* Sheriff Al Weaver promised to patrol the city. But the local magnates knew that he had but one chief deputy, one office deputy, one plain clothes deputy and four uniformed roadmen to prevent all the county's crime and to catch motor speeders. So they asked Chief Gillen and his platoon to remain...
...West New York, N. J., one Paul Bethamen, weaver, husband, father, awoke in a room he had never seen before. It had bars. It was a prison cell...
...example, got Representative Weaver of North Carolina?the kind of man that can make a jury weep. Interminably, passionately, he went through the record to show that there was no proof that Judge English had committed any crime. It is more serious, said he, to impeach a man than to convict of crime. Without substantial proof of crime, there can be no impeachment. He pleaded with the House to remember "the wild pulsations of a father's heart," not to "tear the ermine from this, old father," to remember that...
...second case was that of a widow with two small children living in three rooms, only two of which were heated. She was a weaver, a skilled worker, and received $15 a week out of which she just managed to pay her rent of $17 a month and support her children. She had worked nights but her health had given way and she was forced to change to day work to save her life...
...Raymond Weaver's first novel is decidely a success. He has occasionally let satire better truth; he has even let it better niceness. But he has also illuminated the lives of the dwellers in a strange land, the devotees of a strange religion, and done so with precision and tact. That celibacy does not always prelude sanity; that religion does not necessarily preface morality are obvious facts. Yet a book like "Black Valley...