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...Needless to recall 5,000,000 women were enfranchised (TIME, Aug. 13, 1928) in time for the last British General Election (TIME, June 10), but they bit the hand of the party that gave them the vote-Conservatives helped measurably to put in power Laborite James Ramsay MacDonald...
Pretty though this story is?spiced with the romance and intrigue in which Frenchmen revel?it is a bit too melodramatic, has great significance only as an emphatic reminder of something too often forgotten: that Socialism no less than Communism is an international movement, and that among Socialists throughout the world there is kindred feeling if not solidarity...
Near St. Petersburg, Fla., a rattlesnake spied baseballer George Herman ("Babe'') Ruth hunting quail, sneaked after him. bit a hunting dog in the leg, sneaked away without biting "Babe" Ruth. While his friend administered serum to the dog. "Babe" Ruth, incensed, set out after the snake with a large...
...Harvard in the Crimson-Blue basketball clash on March 8. . . He played against Harvard on the Freshman football, basketball, and baseball teams last year and on the varsity football team this year and Yale lost every time! . . . . Incidentally, that basketball game against Brown in Hemenway on Wednesday had a bit of sentiment attached to it. . .It was the last time a Harvard varsity basketball team will play in the old gymnasium for next year Coach Wachter's charges move to their new quarters. . . Word comes from New Haven that the Arena is all sold out for tomorrow night's hockey...
...bit has the business recession changed his belief that: "It is unnatural to curtail production of anything. . . . Any plan to manipulate conditions and retard production is inadvisable if not ruinous. . . . Machines eliminate drudgery. . . . Strange as it may seem, the more machines in operation, the more men at work. There are more men working today by 50% than at any time in the history of the world, and the standard of the worker has been raised to a much higher level...