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...snow." The Hearst newspapers were flayed for deliberate "lies,'' for "the gravest abuse of the power of the Press in the history of this country." After 30 angry minutes of denunciation, Governor Smith wound up by urging the people of "this city, this State and this country ... to get rid of this pestilence that walks in the darkness...
...editor, using "diplomatic and gratifying" communications, persuaded him at least to take his charming fictional college boys along. Wearily Author Flandrau capitulated, found the young Harvard men accompanying him to England and France, thought of them as traveling in his heart, his head and his steamer trunk, got rid of them at last with such relief that he did not reread his own account of their adventures until 34 years later...
Daniel Jenkins became a Baptist minister. Soon Minister Jenkins preached a sermon on "The Harvest Is Great but the Labor ers Are Few." persuaded his congregation to help him found an orphanage for poor black moppets. That was in 1891. Daniel Jenkins proceeded to rid Charleston of its roaming, thieving "Wild Children." In two buildings in the city, in farms and schools outside it, he has cared for as many as 536 orphans at a time, today has some 300 in his charge. Of the thousands of Negroes turned out of the Jenkins Orphanage at 14, he claims that less...
...production of 11,800,000 bales. That estimate was well under the big crops of the late 1920's, but it was 2,100,000 bales larger than last year. With world consumption of U. S. cotton down to 12,250,000 bales, the chance of getting rid of any worthwhile portion of the 8,700,000 bale surplus this year was reduced to practically zero...
...Bruhl believes that philosophers looking for some obscure moral or esthetic urge to explain the primitive horror of incest are on the wrong track. Incest frightens the savage because it is abnormal, and the perpetrators are put to death not so much to punish them as to rid the community of vulnerable points through which evil forces may break...