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Frankie was pinched trying to organize the pea pickers of the Imperial Valley. Frankie was pinched for unlawful assembly in Los Angeles. He was in jail the night before Reggie bore him a baby, Timothy. His ostensible employment was that of an ice man. With that other, ever-loyal functionary, Willie Schneiderman,* he tried to organize the waterfront, and began to attract the attention of party headquarters in New York. He was charged with resisting arrest during a melee in Los Angeles' Plaza. Then during an unemployment demonstration he waved a placard reading, "Defend the Soviet Union...
...Frazer bore the title of president. Edgar and father Henry differed with Joe Frazer on many company questions, the most recent being whether K-F should declare a dividend or cut prices. The Kaisers, who wanted to cut prices...
...over, Conductor Monteux admitted the tombola had been fun, "but not musique sérieuse." He was already thinking about the Beethoven cycle he will conduct next month: "Now that is sérieux, but not so sérieux as to frighten. Beethoven is not a bore...
Incidentally, the sessions of the Conference which I attended bore no relation to the sweeping denunciation made in your columns by Professor Schlesinger, Jr., who was, I believe, not there. The panel on Writing and Publishing was not "exclusively propaganda," but an occasion at which many conflicting points of view were freely presented and debated. F. G. Matthiessen
...March 12, 1914, at the height of a party, two CRIMSON editors filled the mug--originally the property of Albert V. de Roode '04--with punch, and bore the libation across the Yard to the Hollis Hall apartment of Professor Charles Townsend Copeland...