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Most, if not all, of these persons have been hounded by Bratiano secret agents for years. They have seen ballots cast for their candidates torn up and burned by the Bratiano police. Today their turn has come at long last. Down Bratianos: up Peasants...
...People pushed the car. An old man in a robe stood on a truck at Scollay Square; he held aloft a sign saying: "Diogenes looking for Hoover Prosperity." The air was full of a thousand Smiths and not a few O'Briens; they were on pages of torn-up telephone books. It was getting dark. The Smith mounted a bandstand on Boston Common. Noise. Ambulances. Later were found upon the Common purses, women's hats, beaded bags, and 17 shoes. The Smith went to the Hotel Statler to eat, dress and think over his speech. The crowd, hungry, waited...
More than a rack of test-tubes ? a retort! Seething humanity smothered the Derby. Confetti and torn telephone books snowed. A placard and its prancing bearers proclaimed: "Remember November sixth ? beer!" The swarms of children grew prodigious. Cautioningly, anxiously now the Derby waved. One child run down would cost thousands of votes, perhaps millions. Yet swarming imps were every where, all yelling and grinning, a few tying to the Derby's car tin cans which other imps snatched off, pummeling the tin-cantiers...
...East Boston Airport is to be completely done over according to plans adopted to make it one of the leading airports in the United States. The field, upon which work has already been started, is to be trebled in size, and all the hangars are to be torn down and new, ultra-modern ones built. The Flying Club hangar will be constructed in accordance with the plans for the new airport...
...them. Their patriotism, not unmixed with less grandiose emotions common to young-manhood everywhere in football season, mounted to heights that made police reserves from Trenton seem necessary to the peace of Princeton. False fire alarms were sent in. A student mob of riotous proportions assembled. Party banners were torn down and up. A passing motor bus and all its passengers received a thoroughgoing shake on Nassau street. Dean Mauss strode out to quiet his charges. They ignored him and roistered long and late...