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...furious. He lumbered over to the Treasury Department to see Secretary Mellon. It was reported that during the interview he asked Mr. Mellon if this was what Mr. Mellon called "straight shooting." Mr. Mellon, powerfully, persistently neutral, did not agree with Mr. Watson's definition of a "straight shooter." Mr. Watson left the Treasury promising to war on the Administration from then until June if Mr. Mills was allowed to help Hooverize Indiana. It was not reported that Mr. Mills would change his plan...
...Willis. But "Red Head Carrie" had fled home to Detroit. A mob of 200 unionists in the Flower Mine district (also near St. Clairsville) rambled down the highway flinging chunks of rock into non-union windows. Out of one window a shotgun blurted answer. Police locked up the shooter for safekeeping. Governor Donahey of Ohio sent word: "The law must be obeyed. If violence continues, troops will be forthcoming, no difference whether the miners or operators are to blame...
...Colt, 45 six-shooter, is exactly the type carried by rangers forty years ago throughout the West. It is known to have been used in several memorable encounters with the Indian tribes who were still hostile at that time...
...years ago a hotel employe in East Las Vegas, N. M., tried to separate two fighting men. One of the fighters shot; hit the peacemaker, by mistake, in the throat. The shooter was Carl C. Magee, Scripps Howard newspaper editor, his opponent David D. Leahy, a former judge who had thrice sentenced Magee to prison-once for libel and twice for contempt of court. The libel was published in Magee's Albuquerque newspaper in exposures of state government corruption. Two pardons and a habeas corpus proceedings kept Mr. Magee at large. Magee's testimony of recent prosperity...
Thus, last week, two famed Democratic Governors met for the first time, discussed dentists, avoided politics. Governor Moody was in Manhattan as the head of a Goodwill Delegation of some 125 Texans, touring the North and East, proving that the modern Texan costume includes no six-shooter, preaching the doctrine of economic interdependence among 48 states. The trip had been designed on a strictly non-political basis, Governor Moody having repeatedly refused to discuss either "politics or personalities." He did say, however, that in Texas the Ku Klux Klan is "as dead as the proverbial doornail...