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...Philippine independence-less to give the little brown men freedom than to keep their sugar from coming in duty free. A few weeks ago the Philippines were given their second offer of freedom. But still all was not well. Some of the President's advisers wanted to knock down the tariff barriers, thereby administering a death blow to the beet industry as too inefficient and costly a luxury to maintain at the expense of the country at large. At this suggestion, a howl of anger went up from the representatives of beet sugar states...
...stories, and struck at the wrong target. If airmail carriers had played a crooked game with President Hoover's Postmaster General Brown, they had only followed rules laid down by him as the umpire. It seemed fair enough to change the game's rules, not fair to knock out the obedient players. The wage of connivance, retorted the Administration, is punishment. By last week the rules of the game as it is to be played under President Roosevelt's Postmaster General Farley were not finally settled, but temporary rules were ready and an hour was at hand...
...lineup for the start or resumption of play. The ball-pigskin covered but blunter than an American football-is thrown between two packs of forwards who bend over with locked arms, butting against each other and trying to kick the ball out to their backs. Scrum follows a knock-on (forward fumble while running). After a ball goes into touch end (out-of-bounds) it is lined-out (thrown in among two lines of forwards). A player catching a kick can signal for the equivalent of a fair catch by digging his heel in the turf and crying "Mark...
...Court of St. James's, Robert Worth Bingham. I remember the uproar as of yesterday. Dickens had indulged in harsh criticism of Kentuckians which was instantly resented as described. Get history straight, and tell it that every time a Kentuckian had a fight after that he tried to "Knock the Dickens Out of His Opponent." True as Gospel...
...long his neck is," one exclaimed. "That's because it's broken," explained an officer. The girls giggled. The doctor ordered silence so that he could listen for heart beats with his stethoscope. Fourteen minutes later he was still hearing them. "Aw, hell," someone yelled, ''knock him on the head with a hammer." An officer patted his six shooter: "I know a faster way than that." Thus the spectacle went on for over an hour until all three were hanged and dead. Father Collins standing beside the sheriff smiled through it all. Since Hernando Negroes...