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When pious Doukhobors (religious sect) parade naked in protest, British Columbia police pepper their bare flesh with itch powder, spank their bare backs with short lengths of hose. In Thrums last week 200 angry, itching Doukhobors retaliated by squirting water at the peppering police. After furious scuffling 84 male and 33 female Doukhobors were arrested, charged with nudism, face possible jail sentences of three years...
...ambulance. There attendants kept him awake while Dr. Earl Hubert Snavely examined him. Dr. Snavely whispered some words to the attendants and they led Howard Edwards down a corridor toward a room. At the door of the room they turned him around, led him back. Howard Edwards began to protest. "I gotta sleep," said...
...breaking weapon in the hands of the mill-owners that is the crux of this situation. It is against this, and the particularly flagrant use of it in this case,--the holding of Miss Berkman for seven months without ball as a punitive measure,--that the Liberal Club's protest is lodged. By Miss Berkman's activity, the National Textile Workers' Union had conducted a vigorous and thorough prosecution of the strike, which in turn created a united front of millowners, the A. F. of L., and the U. S. Department of Labor, whose common object was to break...
...manipulate the market? Mr. Bragg: I don't think there was any manipulation. Counsel Gray: Oh, be a little frank with this committee. You didn't just take $32,000,000 into the market and then sit down and wait. Tell us some truth. Senator Glass: I protest against bully ragging the witness that...
...nation's oldest and most famed actor-author-managers- William A. Brady, 68. Not unacquainted with Washington officialdom, Mr. Brady served the Wartime propaganda organization by directing film publicity. Last week he came, with many another of his profession, to protest the 10% amusement tax passed by the House and now on its way with the rest of the tax bill to the Senate...