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...overheard the incident sometime later by a member of the fireroom force who stated that they held hot shovels under the ventilator as the fish came down and flapjacked them until nicely broiled. This, I suspect, was an exaggeration...
Sure enough, as soon as Chief Switter, who had been working 16 to 20 hours per day, went to the country for an evening with his wife, the self-appointed leaders of the new deputies took charge of the police station. One witness testified that he overheard a Republic foreman remark early that day: "We're going to clean them up tonight...
...United Mine Workers organizer testified at a Senate investigation last week that he had overheard this conversation in a hotel two years ago, during a U. M. W. drive to organize Harlan County's miners. That drive failed, as union attempts to get a foothold in "Bloody Harlan" have always failed. But last week there was a new tide in Harlan history, and the feudal sway of Capital over one of the world's richest bituminous coal fields seemed about to end. U. M. W. had put 20 organizers in the field on the heels of the Supreme...
...wonderful things I have witnessed." Partly because she got sick of anti-Bolshevik propaganda, Lola was on the verge of being converted to Bolshevism when she had the chance of escaping to Poland on a forged German passport. She took it. Working as a telephone girl in Warsaw, she overheard the first news of Germany's collapse. In the maelstrom that followed the Armistice, her knowledge of languages-she spoke five-was her life-preserver...
...King fortnight ago visited the depressed areas of South Wales (TIME, Nov. 30), and was overheard to exclaim to Welsh proletarians: "Something must be done for Wales!" This having been printed by Viscount Rothermere's Daily Mail, Baron Camrose's Daily Telegraph hotly retorted: "Those who would make a whip to beat the Ministers out of the kind and human feelings the King has shown are not helping the depressed areas but are doing His Majesty a grave disservice...