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...appeared 200 guardsmen masquerading in blue dungarees as riotous strikers. To quell their mock disturbance a platoon of State infantry in gas masks marched against them, hurled tear bombs for practice. A soft breeze blew the white fumes back into the Little White House. Governor & Mrs. Arthur Harry Moore wept...
...next clutch of the Artiglio IPs five-clawed dredge was to raise from the "treasure" ship Egypt 400 ft. below. The dredge dipped, scrabbled, rose 15 tense minutes later with two gold bars and a scattering of sovereigns. The Italian crew went hysterical. "Gold! Gold!" they howled. They screamed, wept, embraced. Three years of painstaking, hazardous marine engineering had at toilsome last succeeded. Fourteen men had died to bring that gold to the surface. One ship had been blown...
...them dropped off, sprawled in a heap on the ground. One plunked down 20 ft., fractured his arm. But soaring rapidly the Akron jerked three sailors so high that they dared not let go. Struggling to keep their grip, they lashed about desperately. On the ground women screamed, men wept, officers shouted, sailors ran around wildly. Then Sailor Edfall shot down like a bag of sand, 150 ft. to his death. Two figures still clung to the end of the swinging ropes. One of these soon...
...problems of reconstruction and relief before the country are economic problems, not political. No greater danger could befall this nation than to have the American people wept off their feet by political quackery or demagoguery and the promise of prosperity to come which cannot be conjured out of a hat by political legerdemain. Sane, well considered, sound economic thought and action alone can bring a semblance of restoration to our shattered prosperity. In my opinion Herbert Hoover, from every angle by which one might approach this problem, is best qualified to carry out such a course...
...life's only joy to the old couple whose dead grandchild had trained it to perch on their shoulders, peck at their ears. But the old couple thought the bird sang only to ease their mourning, that the cat planned death to their particular bird, that the stars wept for their sorrow...