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John Guthrie Sutherland submitted to arrest, climbed into a third-class carriage, went to Brighton, got his contract. In police court he was fined ?12 ($41.50 current exchange) for needlessly nagging a train...
...four-year rule in Louisiana energetic Huey Long has made a public record to which his partisans point with pride. He reduced property assessments 20%. He distributed 600,000 free school books. At his free night schools 175,000 illiterates over 21 learned to read & write. From a third-class institution Louisiana State University has moved up to an A-1 rating. Its enrollment has been increased from 1,800 to 5,000. Louisianans can now attend it for as little as $20 per month. Senator Long is responsible for 2,500 mi. of new paved roads...
...notion that he could relieve unemployment in this distressed British area by inducing capitalists to scrap their textile machinery, or unemployed workers to adopt the hand loom. What the small brown man was after was to drive a shrewd bargain in business-plus-politics. Before leaving London in a third-class smoking compartment, Non-Smoker Gandhi let it be known that if the powerful industrialists of Lancashire and other depressed British textile areas will bring pressure upon the British Government to grant India her independence, he, Gandhi, will move to end India's present "boycott" of British cloth...
...alternatives confronting the conferees were: 1) to restrict travel by cutting down schedules or 2) to increase travel by cutting down rates. They took the latter course, announced a cut beginning Aug. 17 of from 10% to 30% in first-class rates, of 13% in third-class rates. In shipping circles it was rumored that the cut had been practically forced by the British, who had threatened a rate war against the French and German lines. Oldsters recalled that in 1904 British and German steamship companies competed so bitterly for immigrant trade that one could travel from Great Britain...
While reporters rushed with this news to telephone booths, the Royal family emerged?not from their private car, a hot box had forced it to be disconnected at Avila?but from an ordinary third-class coach. While they were being fawned and wept over by Spanish Royalists, a train pulled into Hendaye from the north. It was jammed with Republican exiles rushing back to Spain, all cheering, talking, smoking, gloating over the pleasant political berths that awaited them in Madrid...