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...operations for fomenting the World Revolution of the World Proletariat), was indirectly the cause of turning out James Ramsay MacDonald's first Labor Cabinet when British Conservatives published the notorious "Zinoviev Letter" (TIME, Dec. 1, 1924). As Kamenev (born Rosenfeld) and Zinoviev (born Apfelbaum) stood in the dock before Ulrich last week, no Bolshevik could doubt but that a Red pigmy was judging two Red giants...
...second place, the new management reduced the salaries of the students working on the concessions and increased the working hours. Only when a strenuous protest was made, were salaries raised to a reasonable figure. Students were made to account for each cent taken in, with a dock in pay as the penalty. Under the old system a deduction from profits was the penalty...
That genial advocate, Alvin Mansfield Owsley, U. S. Minister to Rumania, was met at the dock in Manhattan by a delegation of cheering admen last week, put up at the Hotel Roosevelt before reporting to President Roosevelt...
Born 50 years ago in Dublin, Sean O'Casey did not learn to read until he was 12. He earned his bread selling news papers, grew up to be a bricklayer's helper, a stonebreaker and dock hand. Like R. C. Sherriff (Journey's End), he became interested in the theatre through a group of amateurs. "Everyone was getting tired of the Abbey plays," says he. "so I decided to write one for them." The amateurs as well as the Abbey turned the play down, but William Butler Yeats wrote an en couraging letter. O'Casey...
...baffled onlookers were made of sterling stuff. Howling with rage, a few of the nimbler spirits began to scale the palings around the dock. Like a frightened gazelle, our hero, resourceful as ever, ran to the end of the float, pushed the log into the middle of the stream, untied the Leviathan, and pushed off just as the enemy swarmed over the fence and advanced in skirmish formation. Paddling vigorously with his hands, he was soon in midstream, and was nearing his prize when of a sudden his progress was stopped, for unhappily he had forgotten to untie the stern...