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...Supreme Court fight. Unwilling to help "The Boss" in that struggle, the Vice President asked and got permission to go home, go fishing. Joe Robinson was fighting Mr. Roosevelt's battle as well as he could. But the effort killed Joe Robinson. After the funeral at Little Rock, Ark., John Garner went straight to Franklin Roosevelt, plainly told him his Court plan was beaten, but he still was loyal enough to engineer a compromise that saved some face...
...year required by Canada's iron & steel industry are imported from Newfoundland and the U. S. It was therefore news last week when the Northern Miner (Toronto) reported that Canadian iron would soon be coming up from a big ore body beneath M-shaped Steep Rock Lake, located about 100 miles north of Minnesota's great Mesaba Range...
...iron under the lake. After he met up with Joseph Errington, a prosperous oldtime mining man, professional geologists definitely established existence of the ore body. The two promoters feel sure of at least 100,000,000 tons in the property they have now bought up, and chartered as Steep Rock Iron Mines Ltd. (Joseph Errington, president), with authority from the Ontario Government to issue 5,000,000 shares...
...from waving his shares in the public's face, Joseph Errington last week clenched his cigar, said he had no intention of putting the stock up for public sale, said he did intend to start shipping Steep Rock Lake ore east to Lake Superior...
...fanatical anarchists committed suicide by staying behind and fighting the Insurgents to the end, but at exactly 2:40 p. m. Friday, Feb. 10, a handful of Rebel troops of Generalissimo Francisco Franco nailed their red & gold banner to a telegraph pole at the edge of the rock-bedded river which separates Puigcerda from the French border village of Bourg-Madame. All of Catalonia was theirs. On the other side of the river, less than 500 yards away, several thousand Loyalist soldiers dumped their arms and ammunition into piles at the roadside and tramped dejectedly off to French concentration camps...