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...York's Industrial Commissioner Elmer F. Andrews, uneasy at Bergoff's system of industrial anarchy, jumped at the chance to strike him a stiff blow. Only license which Bergoff possesses is for private detective work. During hearings on his employes' complaints last spring the State charged that Bergoff Detective Service, Inc. was simply a blind for unlicensed Bergoff Service Bureau, its sole purpose being to give the impression that Bergoff's strikebreaking activities were carried on with the State's sanction. On those grounds last week Bergoff's detective license was revoked...
...which Italy produces plenty, instead of cotton, of which we produce little or none. Having electrified many of our railways, the coal saved is now going into the bunkers of troop ships. We are pinched today. But it is a choice of evils. We must overflow elsewhere or blow up in Europe. We can perhaps hold out longer than other peoples who have little to go on because, although the Almighty gave Italy little, He provided plenty of sunshine and an Italian spirit that can stand much privation...
...full: "A rule has been technically violated unknown to me. As the Committee feels that this violation warrants a penalty, there is nothing else for me to do but to tender my resignation as Captain of the Harvard Football Team. This is indeed an extreme disappointment and severe blow to me. However, I entered Harvard University for the purpose of acquiring an education, and I fully intend to continue and to obtain my degree in June...
...poisonous sand snakes. A keeper had found one sand snake when it bit him; a small boy brought in the other. Two of the cobras had been remarked by a woman visitor on top of a cage; the third was prodded out of a remote gutter with an acetylene blow torch by Director Bean who is not afraid to admit, "I am deadly afraid of snakes." The Bandy-Bandy had completely disappeared. Mrs. Wiley had not reported any of these escapes...
...hilt, then drew it out and cast it down on the plank. . . . With a raucous cry Marat fell backwards . . . stiffened in agony, his eyes staring, his tongue protruding and blood gushing from the gash" to stain the water of his bath. Death was instantaneous, for the blow, clean and skillful, traversed the lung and opened the heart...