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...Albert Samuel Inkpin, 41, secretary of the British Communist party ; William Charles Rust, 22, secretary of the Young Communists' League; Harry Pollit, 30 boiler maker and member of the executive board of the Communist Internationale; William Gallacher, 43, brass finisher; and Walter Hannington, 30, engineer. † John Ross Campbell, Editor of the Workers' Weekly; Arthur McManus, head of the colonial department of the Communist Party; John Thomas Murphy, head of its political bureau ; Robert Page Arnot, director of the Labor Research Department; E. W. Cant, Communist organizer; Thomas W. Wintringham, journalist; Thomas Bell, engineer...
...seventh game and the championship of the South by beating Georgia 27 to 0; and one by the sportsmanlike action of Northwestern in conceding to Michigan the "Big Ten" title for which the two had tied. And in Manhattan, under a sky of pewter, with a brass band playing for the march and countermarch of little figures in grey and little figures in blue, the Army beat the Navy 10 to 3 in the game that ended the season...
...plumber is also a chemist. He has been doing research work at the University in mining and metallurgy. He is 32-year-old Harry McClane. Last week he announced the discovery of an alloy. He claims for it that it is only slightly heavier than aluminum, much lighter than brass or iron, that it will withstand a pressure of more than 50 tons to the square inch, that it does not corrode, that earth acids do not affect it, that it takes a polish like silver, and that it can be manufactured to sell at about a dollar a pound...
Meanwhile Publisher McCormick had put a collar on the bulldog in the form of Liberty, a brass-studded fiction journal, designed to attract readers who might otherwise spend their five cents on the Saturday Evening Post. New paper-mills were bought to serve the News and Liberty. The old bulldog had grown...
...whether or not the players enjoy the game, I don't believe the undergraduates, nor the graduates, nor the general public care a brass button, any more than the Roman populace cared whether the gladiators enjoyed the game of slaying one another, so long as it was given a "Roman Holiday." Nor any more than the spectators care whether Jack Dempsey or Georges Carpentier enjoy being punched and mauled and knocked out. I find that this is the point of view of those I have asked, and I do not claim to be different from the rest. Nobody cares about...