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...textile strike which for 12 weeks had been enlivening the annals of New Jersey with accounts of strikers dispersed with clubs, tear bombs, riot acts and jail sentences, spent its 13th week in a futile research for a peace settlement...
...13th of 15 children born to a Scotch-English farmer of Lancaster, Mass. Crossed in love in his twenties, he turned his back upon the girl and went to California, where he hired himself out to farmers until able to acquire land of his own at Santa Rosa. In 1881, his small nursery business leapt to great proportions when a banker asked, in the spring, to have 20,000 prune trees for fall planting. Young Burbank bought almond seeds, sprouted them, grafted prune buds to the sprouts and delivered 20,000 prune shoots for the banker's fall planting...
...eminent, respected Associate Judge of the U.S. Commerce Court, was impeached on 13 articles, which charged that directly and indirectly he had profited by collusion with mine owners and railroad officials in cases before him. On Jan. 13, 1913, the Senate found him guilty on several articles, including the 13th, which was a general and inclusive charge of conduct unbefitting a Judge...
...acre ranch, the natural rugged beauty of which he had been careful to preserve much as he preserved his own natural strength and powers from the debility that riches and refinement often breed. He had started life as a poor boy, an English book-binder's 13th child. He had gone to the public schools of Rushville, Ill., worked on the family farm, then gone, at 18, to be his half-brothers' office boy on the Detroit Tribune for $3 a week...
Significance. Disraeli and Gladstone?both were remote. Disraeli, artist and Jew, seemed always a foreigner. Gladstone, Olympian Christian, had, said one, "the mind of a 13th Century schoolman." One seemed to come from another clime, one from another time. They both ruled the hard-headed men of England for two generations. Both were clearly patterned in the weave, not only of England, but also of the modern world. Fortunately two of the world's greatest biographies record their lives-Lord Morley on Gladstone, Moneypenny and Buckle on Disraeli...