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Rowdyism. At several points rowdyism assumed serious proportions. In Glasgow, H. J. Tennant, the Liberal candidate, was forced to seek police protection, while Miss Violet Robertson, Conservative for the St. Roller constituency, was spat upon, "kicked in the shin" and "treated insultingly" by a crowd of hooligans. In London H. Hogbin, Liberal candidate for Battersea, was forced to cancel all his meetings because he could never make himself heard. Even the pleas of his opponent for fair play failed to help matters. Lord Curzon was another victim of the rowdies. There were many other incidents of "howling down" meetings...
Commenting after publication of the telegram, she said: " I do not hold one of Big Tim Murphy's cards and I cannot be ordered around like a gashouse worker. I will not submit to the steam roller tactics of Mr. Insull...
...considered normal,--which may never be normal again. Influences which even General Dawes is powerless to control are forcing America as well as Europe to gradual changes of external policy, to revisions of government, to paternalism rather than individualism. "Hell and Maria" has put his back against a steam roller; but he will have plenty of assistants. The surviving individualists are preparing for a finish-fight, and if their methods are sometimes quaint, their cause is no less worthy of support...
MINNESOTA: The Twin Cities are to have the first noiseless (roller-bearing) street cars in the world. They are to be installed in April...
...Listening In" has many exciting moments. Indeed, as Jonathan Cumberland remarks to Mr. Morrison in the Prologue, "The action begins the moment you move in here." A house abandoned for twenty years lends manifold opportunities for holding the audience breathless, and if the thrills, like those of a roller-coaster, generally bring up short with a laugh, no one is the worse for it. Even the announced intention of the mysterious Mr. Morrison at the outset to prove that all spiritualism is the work of human hands does not impair the goose-fleshy qualities of Bleeker Hall. The fact that...