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...William Z. Foster, who began as an I. W. W., then went over to organized Labor, and finally deserted to Communism. Now he is head of the Workers' Party, the "overground" organization of the Communist Party which found it wise to "submerge" after one of its conventions, picturesquely staged amid Michigan sand dunes, had been raided and Foster, Ruthenberg and others arrested. There was Joseph Manley, son- in-law and arch-disciple of Foster. There was C. E. Ruthenberg who began as a Socialist, then found himself imprisoned as a criminal anarchist. In all, he has some nine arrests...
...Crew, President of his Junior Class, a member of his Freshman Football Team, President of the Phillips Brooks House, undergraduate President of the famous Hasty Pudding Club and author of last year's show, Ibis of the Harvard Lampoon," one is forced to wonder what time he found, amid all these endeavors, to write...
Cleveland, O., June 12.--Amid a bedlam of shouting and noise that rivaled that of previous years, for the first time since the convention started, General Charles Gates Dawes of Illinois, was nominated tonight as the Republican candidate for vice-president. The third ballot saw a landslide of votes to the financier's faction after Governor Frank Orren Lowden of Illinois had refused the nomination that was tendered to him on the second ballot...
...next ballot, however, saw Governor Lowden coming to the fore. Despite, his repeated assurances that he was not a candidate, the delegates flocked to his banner, and amid riotous applause, his nomination was announced. Uncertainty as to his acceptance was still so strong, however, that a recess was declared during which Chairman F. W. Mondell of Wyoming, communicated with the ex-governor of Illinois...
...Amid the ruins of Pompeii, the Royal University of Naples celebrated its 700th anniversary by a picturesque pageant. Ancient rites of Parthenope (the Greek Naples) were staged in the twilight, including the "lampaded-romiae," wherein beautiful young women in classic drapery ran about handing symbolically from one generation to another the flaming torch of Life and Science...