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...obscure politician in Philadelphia, Jack Diamond ran off to Brooklyn, became a package thief, earned the name "Legs" by the fleetness of his escapes. Once caught, he was sent to a reformatory. The Draft got him during the War. but he deserted the Army. He was sent to Leavenworth Penitentiary for a three-year term. First official act of clemency by President Harding...
Baker Boom. Fortnight ago the potent Cleveland Plain Dealer declared for the Democratic nomination and election of Newton Diehl Baker who does not encourage his Ohio friends' efforts to put him into the White House. Last week Martin L. Davey, "tree surgeon" and onetime Congressman, started a "Draft-Baker" movement in Ohio. Modest Mr. Baker again spurned the chance to be a presidential candidate, favored delegates pledged to Ohio's Governor George White, declared bread, not beer, would be the 1932 campaign issue...
...Becket, traitor to King?" and he answered, "Here is the Archbishop of Canterbury." After a flurry of arms they knocked his mitre to the ground and Becket crushed it as his body fell. In a moment the great cathedral was empty, and as the candles guttered in the draft there was a cry of "King's men," down a side street...
Orator James Ramsay MacDonald admitted in 3,000 sonorous words that the $1,000,000 Conference had virtually failed. It broke down on the specific job of trying to draft a new constitution that would make the Government of India responsible chiefly to an Indian Parliament instead of to Great Britain's autocratic Viceroy of India. The larger issue, namely whether India should receive "dominion status" with its implicit right of secession from the British Commonwealth, was not even considered by the Conference-despite the fact that it was the Second Indian Round Table Conference and should have been...
...track, 701 locomotives, 26,000 freight and 411 passenger cars. Last week this whole property, $358,000,000 in assets, passed out of stockholders' hands into receivership. The railroad industry saw its first major bankruptcy since Depression, looked on glumly as the stockmarket absorbed the news like a draft of poison...