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Seventy-seven counties has the State of Oklahoma - Choctaw and Pushmataha, Bryan and Love, Jefferson and Garfield, Custer and Dewey, Cotton and Alfalfa, Beaver and Kingfisher, many another...
...were led by racketeering Communists. Using this as an excuse President John M. Franklin of International Mercantile Marine (which particularly hates Seaman Curran because he began his striking career on an I. M. M. ship last spring) requested New York City's special prosecutor of racketeering, Thomas E. Dewey, to intervene. Prosecutor Dewey refused...
...discovered notorious, 260-lb. Sam ("Chowderhead Cohen'') Harris busy hiring strikebreakers. Calling the police after Chowderhead became rambunctious. Editor Palmer yelled: "Here's the hiring man for the finks! This ex-convict is working for the steamship owners and they have the nerve to complain to Dewey about racketeers!" Bellowed beefy Chowderhead: "I'll take no gump from anybody! I'll talk to no -- reporters!" Six policemen then dragged him off to jail...
...Yellow Springs, to pull the trigger of the opening gun of the Mann Centenary, went Columbia's old Philosopher John Dewey, President Karl Taylor Compton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, onetime U. S. Commissioner of Education George Frederick Zook, 370 other schoolmen. The Centenary will spread to the U. S. public schools to which Horace Mann contributed more than any other individual and on which his fame securely rests...
...named Albert Teester let himself be bitten by a rattlesnake, became gravely ill, recovered (TIME, Aug. 20, 1934). Soon in Birmingham one female and three male Holy Rollers safely handled a rattler from which, it later was revealed, the fangs had been drawn at the behest of their Rev. Dewey L. Dotson. Famed in the rural districts of Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia is George Hensley, a cracker parson who has been publicly snakebitten 200 times, is apparently immune to serpent venom...