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...rented Atlanta hall Columbian Burke wildly harangued his audience of riffraff. Suddenly there was a crash of glass; a cloud of tear gas sent the listeners coughing and choking toward the exit. His lean face bright with sweat, Burke leaned through the broken window and shook his fist. He bawled: "Come back here, you Jew. We'll get you yet." To emergency police he shouted accusingly: "Some Communist...
...Kelly had held Chicago in his ham-handed fist for a dozen years. But last week his grip was so flabby that the Democrats lost, besides four Congressmen, two key county officers. The city simply could not pile up the plurality to outweigh the Republican suburbs in Cook County. With a Republican treasurer and Republican sheriff handing out Republican patronage, next April might well see a Republican in City Hall...
...carefully folding their string-ties, an aggregation would roar out of a gaslit locker-room to pull every play in the book, and some still in manuscript. Grabbing moustaches was worth a slight penalty, but the pile-on, the straight-arm, and an occasional sapping with a clenched fist were all "part of the game." For eleven such people--and for the age that was waiting before--the Harvard Stadium was constructed...
...Louis, on the steps of New York's City Hall, balled a brawny fist in the cause of the American Social Hygiene Association's October antivenereal drive for $300,000, bumped off the Bum of the Month (VD in effigy...
...fist string forward line looked about the best it has all year, and before the afternoon was ever, it had slammed in a total of 12 goals against a mongrel "B" eleven with Phil Potter and Gaston Azcarraga doing most of the scoring...