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...night was clamorous: whistles, bells, automobile horns, the music of six bands rising from a parade two blocks away. Overflow from the parade surged past the mansion, shouting insults at the Governor. Confetti drifted down from the windows along Baton Rouge's Third Street; marchers in the parade threw handfuls of aluminum sales-tax tokens in the crowd. Because Earl Long had called Sam Jones "high-hat, sweet-smelling Sam Jones," marchers wore high hats, carried mops. Baton Rouge had seen nothing like it since the Armistice. Neither had Lake Charles, where 20,000 people formed in a four...
Last year an ill-conceived strike threw 50,000 Chrysler Corp. employes out of work from Oct. 6 to Nov. 29. Not all were strikers: 27,000 were idle because the plants where they had worked could not get automobile parts. Question for Michigan's Unemployment Compensation Commission: were State unemployment benefits due the whole...
...Threw elderly vegetables at King Carol...
Handsome, bespectacled, studiously slangy Father Rice, 31, helped found the Catholic Radical Alliance in Pittsburgh on May Day 1937. This somewhat over-named organization threw its weight to C.I.O., got into many a picket line. It also opened St. Joseph's House of Hospitality, in a dirty, barnlike, abandoned orphanage in a slum. With a permanent staff of 40 indigent men who try to keep the place clean and run its kitchen, the House today serves 1,000 plain meals twice a day, shelters 600 men at night...
Last December a committee from Pittsburgh's Federation of Social Agencies threw up its hands when it learned that nearly all of the bums and hobos of the House slept on the floor, were required neither to take baths or medical examinations. Father Rice, who was then directing St. Joseph's as a side line to his parish work, hearing rumors that the city might close the place, exclaimed: "I'll go to jail first!" The uproar resulted in gifts of some 150 beds to St. Joseph...