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...British General Strike, the Coal-Strike and finally World Depression threw out of work tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, finally more than two millions of His Majesty's subjects...
...horses converged at the water, and then the thing that happens so often when a tired horse is taking a bad jump happened to Sea Soldier and Reel Foot at the same time: the riders checked a little, the horses made rough, desperate lunges to carry, and threw the men. All that Jockey Skinner on Soissons had to do was put the chestnut carefully over the brook and the shallow finish fence and down the midway to win. Reel Foot and Sea Soldier galloped riderless to the finish, Sea Soldier reaching the judges' stand just behind the winner. Brose...
...operator at Wawa Junction on the narrow gauge railroad that runs to the coast. Then he fled. Yelling "Viva Sandino," the bandits fell savagely upon Logtown. Under a breadfruit tree they killed John Phelps, timber inspector for Standard Fruit's logging interests. They cut his body to bits. They threw Joseph Luther Pennington, another Standard Fruit Lumberman, into a river, peppered him to death with shots. Back in the logging camp they woke up Ripley Davis, planter, to murder him in cold blood, cut off his head and stick it on a fence post. Then they sacked the commissary...
...Scullin takes his orders from Theodore" is common talk; but the Senate, as Senates will, refused to take orders, threw out the inflation bill 21 to 6. Encouraged by the Senate, the Commonwealth Bank informed the Government that Treasury overdrafts will not be honored by the Bank above a total...
...from the cruiser Principe Alfonso rose and fell with the tide. King Alfonso in a brown overcoat and grey felt hat jumped from his car, strode forward nervously puffing a cigaret. Grey-haired Admiral Magaz, onetime member of Dictator Primo de Rivera's cabinet advanced snuffling con solations. Alfonso threw aside his cigaret...