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Stinking heaps of refuse piled up in the streets. Rioters in the suburbs uprooted tracks and dug deep trenches across the roads. For many hours Barcelona was completely out of touch with Madrid. A noisy, long-drawn battle was waged between police and Syndicalists in front of the latter's headquarters. They gave up when mountain guns were unlimbered across the street. Sailors rushed a hundred of them on board warships in the harbor. A volley of shots rang out from doorways facing the tree-lined Rambla Flores, sloping down to the harbor. A Civil Guard whirled...
What looked like a long-drawn, cautious auction was going on in the offices of the U. S. Shipping Board at No. 45 Broadway all last week. If it was an auction, it was one of the major deals of U. S. shipping history, for on the block was no less a prize-or white elephant-than the U. S. Lines, proudest Atlantic fleet in the country. Discussions had been going on slowly for weeks, ever since mid-June when President Paul Wadsworth Chapman and the U. S. Lines' directors went to Washington to explain their troubles to Shipping...
...should get into politics and not leave it to the machine professionals. . . . [As for Socialism] at times the Scripps-Howard independence becomes little more than erratic whimsy. . . . [Mr. Howard] says I should stay on the sidelines with him and the rest of the Scripps- Howard executives joining in the long-drawn independent-liberal cheer of 'Hold 'em, forces of reform and decency...
...losers easily took the first two sets, setting a fast pace: but the Harvard players rallied, and won the last three sets without being carried to deuce. They had previously defeated J. B. Fenno Jr. '21 and H. R. Guild '17 in a long-drawn out semi-final match. 7-5, 4-6, 9-11, 6-3. This match was started over a week ago at Long-wood, but was halted at the end of the fourth set with the count knotted at two sets apiece. The final and deciding set was played at Newton, ending in favor...
...romantically won his wife with the aid of an elopers' ladder. Called one day for jury duty in Manhattan, he found himself near No. 195 Broadway, then headquarters of WEAF. He walked in, took a voice test, got a job. Fame came quickly. His reporting of the long-drawn 1924, Democratic National Convention in Manhattan established him as most popular U. S. announcer. Soon no football game, world series, horse race, prizefight, inauguration was complete without...