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...Communist, but as a fraternal delegate from Illinois. He charged that a secret service operative in the employ of the United States had succeeded in joining the Communist organization and was responsible for any violent statements attributed to the defendants. The party convention on which the raid was made, declared Mr. Walsh, was called for the purpose of abolishing underground tactics in favor of coming out into the open as a legal group. When the vote was taken, this Government detective cast the deciding ballot against open legality. Later, said Mr. Walsh, the Communist Party was formally disbanded...
...whiskey-running schooner as ever dumped her weekly 2,000 cases in a bootleg lighter. In a press interview the skipper pointed out that bootleggers, angry at the high prices charged for Scotch and rye, sometimes turn pirate, board a small ship and steal the alcoholic cargo. A raid or two like this and the Rum Fleet decided that a bootlegger's motorboat was no more to be trusted than a revenue cutter. Hence the display of guns...
KENTUCKY: Five ministers of Newport signed resolutions endorsing the Ku Klux Klan and condemning a recent raid on Klan headquarters in Ohio...
Take your own case, for instance. Why didn't you make that world-moving discovery when you had so many chances? Just call to mind the cookie jar in your boyhood home. Remember how earnestly and often you vowed that you would never again raid that cookie jar. And you were a good, honest boy, too. Yet every time you saw that cookie jar you tasted its contents in imagination. No one will ever know how manfully your will power fought against your imagination, no one but yourself can realize how heroically you strove to be all your mother...
...other group. We have never taken any stand on the bonus. In regard to the question of tariff we have taken the position that agriculture is entitled to the same protection as industry. Only yesterday I saw in the morning paper that the bloc was back of a raid upon the United States Treasury for a $15,000,000 appropriation for rivers and harbors. That's pure nonsense. There's not a word of truth in it. In the first place we never held a meeting to consider such a measure, and in the second, a majority of our members...