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...Harvard and upon his graduation (1904), much to the surprise of his family, took a law course at Cambridge. Even more surprised was his family when he began to practice his profession in New York. When he went into Republican ward politics in New York City, his kin threw up their hands in social horror. Later he explained: "I was possessed of a fortune but I wanted to put myself, as a matter of personal pride, in a position where I was not dependent upon the income I had inherited. I tackled politics because I concluded that a man with...
...clock next morning, a truck carrying men to work at Pricedale (Pittsburgh Coal Co.) rumbled through Arnold. Strikers blocked the road, pleaded with the strikebreakers. Then a little boy threw an egg at one of the convoying deputies. The shooting started. One Mike Filopovich, 40, father of five, ran to the door of his store, which also houses the National relief station. One slug clipped him in the head, another in the chest. He died instantly. Four strikers were wounded. Six constables and two Coal & Iron policemen were arrested for the killing. The Governor ordered an investigation...
...there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing...
...June 20, 1928," he said, "a Serb Deputy, Punica Ratchitch, while the Chamber was sitting, drew a revolver from his pocket and fired five shots at the Croat Deputies. My cousin, Paul Raditch, convinced that the Serb wanted to kill my father, threw himself upon him but fell dead, shot in the head. My father rose, with his old friend Grandzsa by his side. Punica Ratchitch continued to fire and my father fell, together with Grandzsa and another Croat named Peruar. Taken to a hospital my father died a few weeks later, both from his wounds and from poison administered...
...addition to silver practically all commodities rose, including the baser metals. The most spectacular performer of these was volatile copper which jumped from 8? (New York) to 9? as domestic and foreign buyers threw large orders into the market. Lead and zinc followed along. Typical of the increase in trading was the excitement in Manhattan's Raw Silk Exchange where trading reached almost 4.000 bales a day after being at 80 a few weeks ago. Startled pages and clerks hurried to put their summer linen-suits on a fortnight ahead of time. In Tokio, Japanese bears talked of harakiri...