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...Leavenworth Prison, Kans., Harvey Bailey and Albert Bates, kidnappers of Charles F. Urschel, were last week fed a pint of milk every four hours through a hose up the nose. Reason for the feeding: a hunger strike which they later quit. Reason for the hunger strike: solitary confinement. Reason for solitary confinement: refusal to reveal the hiding of $100,000 unrecovered ransom money...
...What U. S. Governor recently legalized cockfighting, had his house twice bombed, and quit...
...After 136 years in business, Roosevelt & Son quit the security business...
Wamegonian. Sixty years ago Henry Chrysler used to drive a wood-burning locomotive across the plains of Kansas. Fifty-eight years ago a son was born to him in the town of Wamego, Kans. Walter Chrysler from boyhood was a wizard with machinery. At 1 7 he quit school to become an engine wiper at 5 ?an hour. He took a course in mechanical engineering from International Correspondence Schools. At 33 he had already driven through all the branches of railroad mechanics to the position of superintendent of motive power and machinery for the Chicago & Great Western. From that...
Last summer a trained nurse named Kathleen E. Hunt quit her job with the Arthur Sunshine Home & Kindergarten for Blind Babies. This is a private institution at Summit, N. J., taking in young blind boarders from New Jersey, New York, Delaware. Pennsylvania, Maryland, Tennessee and Rhode Island. When Miss Hunt left, the institution contained about 40 children, none over twelve. No If ger could she endive, she complained to the New Jersey Commission for the Blind, the cruel ways in which- Superintendent Gladys M. Kraeuter let her blind wards be punished. Miss Hunt also carried her story...