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...Dixie Bee. It was midnight on the Wabash. Eight miles inland from the Indiana bank, 64 haggard non-union miners and one woman held the Dixie Bee coal mine, besieged by an invisible swarm of union pickets. For a day and a night and a day their rifles and revolvers had stood off hundreds, possibly thousands, of John L. Lewis' men, squatting in a cornfield, crouching behind a railroad embankment, sniping from a patch of woods. The barricaded tipple house was pockmarked with bullets. One sharpshooting picket had been drilled dead. Within the mine on burlap sacks lay four defenders...
...Record Man, Busier than a busy bee at Roosevelt headquarters in Manhattan last week was small, wrinkle-faced Louis McHenry Howe, the Governor's personal secretary and political handyman. What Mrs. Belle Moskowitz was to Alfred Emanuel Smith, what George Edward Akerson was to Herbert Hoover, what Edward ("Ted") Clark was to Calvin Coolidge, Louis Howe is to Franklin Roosevelt. A newshawk for the old New York Herald, he attached himself in 1911 to Mr. Roosevelt who took him along to the Navy Department. They have been together ever since, call each other "Franklin" and "Louis," share the Governor...
...Bibs & Bibs" is "always good for a laugh." "Buzzin' The Bee" is another one in which the straight man persuades the two comedians to pretend they are bees. To ensure their silence each is given a mouthful of water. This "bit" terminates with one comedian getting a face full of water...
...decades the McClatchy family's Sacramento Bee has dominated that part of California north of San Francisco Bay which is generally known as the Sacramento Valley and which the Bee calls ''Superior California." The San Joaquin Valley, stretching to the south, was until a few years ago swayed by Editor Chester Harvey Rowell's morning Fresno Republican, long famed throughout the State as a fearless journal. In 1920 Publicist Rowell sold out to the Brothers Chase Salmon and George Augustus Osborn, sons of former Governor Chase Salmon Osborn of Michigan. Quick to seize the opening, the McClatchys invaded Fresno, established...
Last autumn Dr. Butler was again talking politics?tariff reduction, unemployment insurance, revision of the Anti-trust laws. Was the presidential bee buzzing once more? Last month the Columbia Spectator nominated Dr. Butler for the White House, advised both parties to select him as their joint leader so that he might head "the kind of government so fondly hoped for by the writers of the Constitution." But, older now, Dr. Butler has grown faintly supercilious toward public office and the politicians who fill them. The idea of his seeking the Presidency he brushes aside as altogether unworthy...