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...strike which attempted to unionize the Banner's mechanical force seven years ago. Inheritor from his grandfather,* German Immigrant Edward Bushrod Stahlman, of both the Banner and his grandfather's famous quick-temper, Publisher Stahlman sometimes bursts violently out of his office into the city room waving aloft a copy of the Banner and shouting, "Who made this damned mistake?" Operating in a poorly paying newspaper town, he drives himself as hard as he drives his staff, appearing frequently at his office at 5 a. m., having breakfast sent in, working through to suppertime. Prone to establish rigorous...
...choir sang Ecce Sacerdos Magnus (Behold the Great Priest), In the afternoon, soldiers, prelates, priests, government officials, members of the Philippines National Assembly and men, women and children formed in a long liturgical procession which took five hours to wind up on the Luneta, where Cardinal Dougherty held aloft a Sacred Host in Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. To these joyful Catholics then came, through loudspeakers, the voice of the Holy Father. On his divan in the Vatican, in a voice much clearer and stronger than that of his last radio address, the Pope said...
After each major act of Joseph Stalin's regime, a vast cheering throng swells into the Red Square, carrying aloft on long poles horrid caricatures of the enemies of Bolshevism, handsome likenesses of its Dictator. At 15° below zero last week, thousands of prospective demonstrators stood shuffling, stamping and blowing on their hands in narrow side streets and alleys adjoining the Kremlin Fortress in which J. Stalin lives, and the Red Square. They were all ready to march in and cheer as soon as the Soviet Supreme Court should hand down its batch of death sentences...
...sexes slept and bathed together, the story goes that only one illegitimate child was ever born to the Dessau Bauhaus. When nosy Dessau city fathers tried to expel the mother, the excited students paraded through the streets of the town, singing Communist songs, waving banners, carrying the baby proudly aloft...
...clouds, a brief flurry when his mask went askew. Not until he saw the long furrows of the Alleghenies did Flyer Hughes slant down in a long power dive to Newark. There, no one was aware of his coming until the crescendoing whine of his racing engine jerked heads aloft. Like an angry dragonfly, the little ship buzzed across the field, spiraled up in a chandelle. In the control tower an official timer clicked his watch. After circling a while to let a transport take off, at 1103 p. m. tired Racer Hughes alighted, ran to a telegraph office...