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...lost his money in the depression of 1921. went to Dayton, suggested a back-to-the-farm movement for the unemployed. Dayton's response was immediate. Under Dr. Nutting's direction a Homestead Unit Committee was formed, a 160-acre farm acquired. From the Department of Interior Dayton got a $50,000 loan. Homesteaders will be permitted to build their own homes along lines laid down by Architect Ernest Flagg, will be loaned money at low rates of interest to be repaid out of earnings from employment in the city or from trades and crafts in the home...
Newshawks caught Secretary Ickes as he left the gathering. "The Interior Department is not buying Fords." said he. "I don't know until when, but Ford...
...Senator with a warm sense of humor, an icy sense of duty and the charmed life of a tomcat. At the turn of the century Georges ("Tiger") Clemenceau picked young Tomcat Sarraut as a likely scrapping partner in the bitter Dreyfus affair. As Clemenceau's Under- secretary of Interior, M. Sarraut was challenged by a certain Deputy Pugliesi-Conti to duel over the rehabilitation of Jew Dreyfus. He accepted "on condition that it is to the death." Tomcat Sarraut's seconds thought he was dead when they carried him off the field run completely through the body...
...closing days of hated tyrant Machado's regime. Detonating bombs boomed through the land, railroad tracks were being blown up, soldiers were shooting striking workers. Finally the National Labor Confederation called a great general strike throughout Cuba, to last two days in Havana, three days in the interior, with the possibility of indefinite extension. Admitting his Government's shakiness, President Grau tried to pass the blame for Cuba's woes to President Roosevelt. Groused he, "Nonrecognition in our case signals a new type of inter-vention-intervention by inertia...
...Allen's Beacon, affected to ignore the Levands. That became impossible last winter when, boasting the largest circulation in Kansas, the Levands succeeded in getting the Hinkel advertising, for which the Eagle claimed it had a contract. First reprisal of the Eagle was to print photographs of the interior of the Hinkel store, showing empty spaces at important counters, during a sale advertised exclusively in the Beacon. Next day they began serial publication of The Great I Am, a thinly veiled, highly colored biography of the late Publisher Bonfils. Author of The Great I Am, Lou Goldberg, promptly reminded...