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...This official step encouraged the oil industry, as represented by the American Petroleum Institute, to believe that it had a friend in the White House who would smile upon its own efforts to hold down production. Confronted with an enormous output and low prices, operators agreed among themselves to plug their production for 1929 at the 1928 level. They asked the Federal Oil Conservation Board to sanction this agreement. Attorney-General Mitchell ruled that such an agreement among the producers of oil would probably violate the anti-trust laws...
...Chinese" O'Neill. At this play tender members of the audience will do well to plug their ears with cotton. Toward the end of the second act, the muscular "Chinese" O'Neill, soldier of fortune extraordinary, finds himself and his English friends, including the dashing Hon. Nancy Beresford, trapped within a rickety Chinese inn by crawling yellow men. O'Neill begins blasting away with a machine gun. The ladies have horse pistols. Several other characters have miscellaneous shooting irons. But despite this artillery the Chinamen triumph, enter with a cabinet in which is contained the corpse of the Hon. Nancy...
...went aboard her father's four-masted windjammer, a copra-trading schooner in the South Seas, and stayed there until she could stand her trick at the wheel, pull on the ropes, man the pumps, spit, and cuss with the hardest of shellbacks. After an initial mishap with plug tobacco, she "chawed dried prunes which made grand spit," and spit two successful curves on a single windy day. Aged seven, she further qualified as able-bodied seaman by swearing, without repeating herself, two minutes running. At 14 she could curse for four minutes. Her father shipped her on, with...
...interest in that record for the American people now, if Governor Smith will defend it, is the picture of Tammany putting pressure on fine, aspiring young men like Al Smith . . . how it overlays his conscience with Tammany psychology. . . . "I make no claim here that Smith is a Tammany plug-ugly. I honor him for having risen from the debasing subserviency. . . . This record is, of course, the old record of a young man. But the young man rose on this record. . . . The Tammany system goes on today as it went on 100 years ago and, indeed, as it will...
Milan, last fortnight, Captain Delafons was stopped on the street by two plug-uglies in civilian clothes who demanded his credentials. Suspecting that their motive was robbery, the Royal Greyhound called for help. Soon a policeman hustled all concerned to a police station. There the plug-uglies proved that they are Fascist detectives, and Captain Delafons that he is a King's Messenger...