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Connections between sewage and water pipes have since been cut. But, said the committee: "Unless the antiquated plumbing and conditions of food-handling found in Hotels C and A are remedied, there seems to be no warrant that a recurrence of the outbreak here considered may not develop under similar conditions...
Among the troubles which rose up to plague President Wilson's second administration was the nation-wide outbreak of labor disputes in the closing months of the World War. To aid in the settlement of one of these disputes, the strike of the California lumberjacks, Wilson sent to the coast the chairman of his War Labor Policies Board, the thirty-six-year-old, Austrian-born Felix Frankfurter. Arriving in San Francisco before the strike leaders, Frankfurter accepted an invitation to dinner on his first evening in the city, returned to his hotel at eleven o'clock. In the lobby...
...height of the outbreak Spanish Fascist José Antonio Primo de Rivera, son of the late Dictator, offered the Government 1,500 trained men to help suppress it. Though politely declined, Spanish wiseacres found that offer the most significant in the entire affray. Rumor would not down that the entire uprising was backed not by Radicals but by Royalists and Fascists in an effort to throw the acknowledged Rightist swing of Spanish voters behind an open dictatorship...
...Chancellor of the Exchequer at the outbreak of the War, Lloyd George was not at first directly concerned with military policy. But he soon made it his business, and from the time he became Minister of Munitions until in 1916 he forced out the Coalition Government and got the Premiership himself, he fought a spirited battle with the War Office. He proves by the record that he was against the disastrous Dardanelles campaign and the mismanaged affair in Mesopotamia; that as early as January 1, 1915 he saw the hopelessness of the stalemate on the Western Front, and urged...
...summer protested what it called exaggerated reports in the U. S. Press of London's unemployment riots, last week printed a cable from New York: "A great exodus of Negroes from the towns and villages of America's race-prejudiced Southern States began today. Terrified by the outbreak of lynching following the condonation of mob violence by Governor Rolph of California, America's vast population of colored folk are hurriedly leaving their homes and setting off in their second-hand cars and old farm wagons for-they know not where. So electric is the atmosphere, so certain...