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...after another M. P.'s from Britain's stricken manufacturing districts damned Japan for dumping, for forging British trademarks, for sweeping many a British cargo boat off Far Eastern seas by debased yen competition. To champion Japan uprose only one M. P., that doughty Gladstonian Liberal. Sir Herbert Samuel, who lately led 33 Orthodox ("Free Trade") Liberals across the House from the Government benches. In his first opposition speech, Sir Herbert confined himself to cotton. Japan's commercial advantage in that field, he said, results from a well organized cotton textile industry "with which slipshod British methods...
...Uruguay, 500 tuberculous hospital patients declared that their food was unfit to eat, went on a hunger strike. Doctors & nurses insisted the food was good, induced them to break the strike after two days. Few hours after their first meal most of the patients, all the doctors & nurses were stricken with ptomaine poisoning...
...secret was their own. Going to the Government bureaus to collect their prize money, many winners loitered for a time with the crowd pretending to wait for news, finally eased in through the door. When they emerged, they covered their faces with their hands to foil photographers, raced panic-stricken for cover. When 16 Frenchmen became franc millionaires (1,000,000 francs = $64,600), most of them stayed anonymous...
...since President Harrison flung open the Oklahoma Indian Territory has the U. S. seen anything like what it will see next week when Prohibition is stricken from the Constitution. On that April morning in 1889 a surging column of men on foot, men on horseback, men in buggies, buckboards, dump-carts, whole families in covered wagons stretched across the prairie in a straight line. Men fought and cursed and jockeyed for a front position behind Federal troopers. At noon a bugle blast split the air. On to the old Indian lands swept 50,000 men, women, children, pioneers, drifters, squatters...
With that rebuke to the American Power Boat Association, Horace Elgin Dodge, automobile scion, last week clapped on his hat, stormed out of the organization's annual meeting. He demanded that his name and those of his boats, with the records they had hung up, be stricken from A. P. B. A.'s rolls...