Word: witnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...behalf of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corporation, I am calling your attention to the following statement contained on page 10 of your issue of February 13, 1928, to wit:-"The day after Senator Johnson spoke in the Senate, a band of Negroes, hired by the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company, swaggered down a road near Horning, Pa., and fired revolver volleys into the windows of a school filled with strikers' children. One of the strikebreakers, arrested, said he had been paid $25 by the coal company to shoot up strikers in their barracks. This was reported as a typical incident...
Prohibition, the curse of America; Prohibition, the blessing of the age; and now, Prohibition, the subject of an epic by the talented M. Pillionel, who promises to turn the shafts of his Gallic wit on this topic in the very near future...
...Irish wit was as irrepressible as her opinions. In war-time she remarked, "Seeing all these soldiers about here makes me feel that I should like to be a war bride myself; but of course, at my age, I couldn't look at anything short of a major general...
...finally turned Tory, and slipped into Parliament through the influence of one of his many women friends. His too brilliant maiden speech was booed. But an Irish opponent, impressed, advised him: "Get rid of your genius for a session. . . . The House will not allow a man to be a wit and an orator, unless they have the credit of finding it out." He gave them the opportunity...
Plowing through mountains of statistics, but enlivening his discourse with a running undercurrent of wit and a few sly I-told-you-so's, M. Poincare presented an 18-month record of brilliant financial stewardship which no other living statesman can match. He has saved the franc from what seemed irretrievable decline, raised and stabilized it de facto at 25 to the dollar, drastically reduced the French internal debt, and accomplished all this without recourse to foreign credits and without having to secure ratification of the (in France) intensely unpopular Franco-U. S. debt settlement...