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Although he worked on a community farm, where food was plentiful, this peasant died of starvation. He had crawled into his little hay cart to rest from his forced labor and never woke...
Next morning the Administration woke to the fact that it had a man-sized fight on its hands. Over to the Senate for anxious conferences hurried that frosty internationalist, Secretary of State Hull. Summoned to the White House on the following morning were four doubtful Senators: Ohio's Donahey, Rhode Island's Gerry, Massachusetts' Walsh, New Mexico's Cutting...
Meanwhile at Gloversville, at Utica and at other communities of New York's Mohawk Valley, topers swigged the best liquor they could afford. Louis Bondsman & wife eventually went to their Gloversville bed. Cramps woke Bondsman up. He could not rouse his wife to help him for she was dead. He got out of bed and into the cold street where a policeman found him shuffling along, weeping: ""I'll be dead. I'll be dead'. I'll be dead. . . ." He died in an ambulance...
...minutes before 4 o'clock one morning last week passengers on the S.S. Havana woke up with a sharp jolt. Three hours later when they were called for breakfast they learned that hard luck had again overtaken the Ward Line. Stuck on a shoal 60 mi. east of Jupiter Light on the Florida coast was the S. S. Havana. While the passengers were eating breakfast Captain Alfred W. Peterson sent an SOS. While they were dancing the rumba in the lounge, he let down an empty lifeboat to test sea conditions. He found them rough. But the Havana...
...Edward Bellamy, a 38-year-old New England journalist, published a book called Looking Backward. More than a million copies of it were sold. It stirred the U. S. and Europe. It was the story of a 19th Century man who went to sleep and woke up in the year 2000 and was shown what the world was like then. This marvelous book described radio and television. It told of giant umbrellas to spread over whole cities to keep off rain and snow. But its chief interest was that it told how poverty had been abolished, how private industry...