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Last week most of the dew, dawn and sunshine had vanished from Detroit. Its dole system under Mayor Murphy had brought the city to the brink of bankruptcy. Jobless relief had cost the city $17,000,000. Because of hard times $11,000,000 in taxes remained unpaid. It closed its fiscal year with a $14,500.000 deficit. Ten percent of the population was out of work. Thirty thousand fam-ilies-132,000 individuals-were being carried on the city's relief rolls at a cost of $1,000,000 per month. Fraud and embezzlement had been found...
...amalgamation question" reached a crisis when the great German offensive of March-to-June 1918 pushed the Allies back to the brink of defeat. General Pershing rushed to Marshal Foch, impulsively offered troops to help stem the tide. The emergency created by the German attack dissolved disagreements, put U. S. divisions helter-skelter into the line for quick action...
...State of Mississippi last week, on the word of its stocky little, pecan-growing Governor Theodore Gilmore Bilbo, was confronted with a major catastrophe. Its treasury was practically empty. It had overdrawn its bank balance by $7,000,000. It was on the brink of defaulting on its public debt.* Bankruptcy threatened to close its schools, turn its prisoners out of jail, free its insane. Its air reeked with hidden scandal. Between Governor Bilbo and the Legislature existed a spectacular deadlock to dim the chances of quick political relief. Born in Juniper Grove 53 years ago, a fluent lawyer-politician...
...Mexico, a 14-year-old boy went swimming in the San Diego River. Up surged a huge crocodile and devoured him. Angry peons gathered on the river's brink, laid a dynamite charge, lured the reptile inshore with a pig, touched off the dynamite, blew to bits pig, boy and crocodile...
...eczema of the foot confined Prime Minister Damaso Berenguer to his quarters in the War Ministry, King Alfonso XIII broke last week the rule that a king never calls on a minister. His Majesty called for a long, earnest talk with footsore General Berenguer. Spain has been on the brink of revolution for months. Dare His Majesty keep his promise to order elections held-the first parliamentary elections Spain has had in seven years...