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...individual member is assured full medical attention. The $3.50 takes care of an entire family. There are two great divisions among the clubs?the Spanish and the Cuban. The Cuban are strictly mutual benefit societies, admit only those who cannot afford to pay for private attention. The Spanish clubs maintain great social halls and schools. They resemble U. S. fraternal societies like the Moose...
Canada's proposal contained four offers and a stipulation. Offers: 1) to maintain existing free lists in respect to Britain and to increase their value by imposing against foreign countries duties on products at present free to all; 2) to place on the free list with Britain many articles in which Britain competes with other countries, maintaining the duties against the other countries; 3) to increase the preferential spread in Britain's favor by a) lowering the present preferential duties paid by British commodities or b) by increasing the duties paid by foreign commodities, or both...
...serious riot occurred. . . . This area contains thousands of brickbats and these were used by the rioters in their attack upon the police. ... It 'will be impossible to maintain law & order except by the free use of firearms which will make the situation a dangerous one. The presence of Federal troops will result in far less violence and bloodshed...
...Near the spot President Garfield was assassinated. *Federal troops were used to put down the "whiskey rebellion" in Pennsylvania (1794), maintain order in "bleeding" Kansas (1856-57) break the Pullman strike in Chicago (1894) and the coal strike in West Virginia (1921). *Last week Reds were accused of starting bank runs in the Mid-west...
...refugee suspected of being Voronsky's chattel. She falls in love with Richard Dix who spurns her, until in the last reel they all escape with surprising ease to the river. No credible picture of modern China, Roar of the Dragon is fair melodrama. White men and women maintain copybook virtues in the unspeakable shadow of Mongol bloodlust. Typical dialog: "You don't know Voronsky." "Only casually; I just...