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...brief summary of the main features of the Foster criminal syndicalism case follows: Last August the secret convention of the American Communist Party was raided by Federal officers in the sand dunes near Bridgeman, Michigan. Warrants were issued for 32 delegates, about two-thirds of whom were captured in the raid. The remainder surrendered voluntarily shortly before their comrades were to come to trial. William Z. Foster, leader of the Steel Strike of 1919, and next to Eugene Debs the most prominent radical in the country, was the first of the Communists to be brought to trial. The specific charge...
...claimed for his scheme that it would have great rainmaking powers, but merely that, by showering clouds and fogs with electrified sand, moisture already in the air could be made to fall over limited areas. The experimenters are continuing their work, undaunted, and important developments may still be looked...
...those who began the reindeer industry in Alaska shows that they only erred in having no idea as to its possibilities. Labrador is the nearest port of America to Europe. It is 1600 miles distant from Ireland. Its coast is easy of approach in the summer, there being no sand banks, and all its innumerable harbors having deep water. Sir William MacGreggor and I collected speciments of its flora and sent them to Kew, England, for a report on their ability to support reindeer; the report was absolutely favorable. Everyone who knows Labrador, knows that from Cape Chidley itself, even...
...with broken skulls, floated and mingled with the blocks of ice, looking for their graves: or, turning in the furious whirlpools among the jagged blocks, they were ground and torn to pieces into shapeless masses, which the river, nauseated with its task, vomited out upon the islands and projecting sand-bars. . . . In on place at a turn of the river I saw a great heap of horses, which had been cast up by the ice and current, in number not less than three hundred...
...great mass of our people who have become weary and a little ashamed of seeing the United States bury its head in the sand while storms are brewing across the water, the President's proposal of joining the World Court has come as a bright ray of hope. The Republican Senators have turned their backs on the proposal. Public sentiment may, be next December, be strong enough to force Senatorial approval. In any case new senators, unskilled in the "art of doing nothing", will come into office to form a new legislative body. Meanwhile, of the old one: "We come...