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...general strike and 750,000 miners remained out until the last bitter weeks of the coal strike? To answer these unpopular questions, Chancellor Churchill sat down four square on his facts last weak, presenting his budget to the Commons as the one logical answer to a problem stated by Fate...
...Sing Sing Death House last week sat Thomas ("Red") Moran, awaiting the electric chair. To visitors, Convict Moran made complaint, lamenting, however, not his fate but his neighbors. On the one hand he is flanked by Convict Julius Gibbs, subject to fits of epilepsy. On the other he has Convict Adam Nappe, who speaks no English, with whom no hours can be whiled away in converse. Disgusted, Convict Moran said: "This is a fine combination to be up against...
...book they have tea in the nursery, go to school, behave like English children. The close and careful breeding that feeds the playing fields of Eton is theirs. Later the restraint of this upbringing makes differing marks on their characters. Mollie foregoes her music and submits to fate and a father who tends his children without tenderness. Margaret's nerves, sharpened by inhibitions, end by shattering her mind. Wilfrid, a normal eldest son, inherits peace and his father's lands. Robin, who gets drunk too often, marries a country wench and offers succor to Angela when her family...
...room-mate stole out, very sadly, pitying his cruel fate...
...fate of Sacco and Vanzetti, like that of Dreyfus, early in the trial ceased to be the important aspect of the case. Whether or not they go to the electric chair, even in their own minds, long ago, has ceased to be as important as whether or not criminal trials are to be decided on the evidence or on race and class prejudice. Dreyfus was convicted of high treason, not because he committed high treason, but because he was a Jew; and there are many people in the present case who believe that Sacco and Vanzetti have been convicted...