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...With their wives and families they form nearly one-tenth of the total British population. This is their fifteenth week without wages. Every kind of trade union resource is exhausted. There are whole areas where $2 a week is all a woman gets to keep her entire home going. "No relief is given to men, to boys over fourteen, or to children under twelve months. Private resources have helped, but now we are faced with a condition that makes it simply necessary to appeal abroad. We have appealed to Europe, and now we are appealing to America...
...York Representative Ogden L. Mills: "The Senator says those responsible for the submission of this question [The Volstead Act referendum] to the people of New York were actuated by cowardice rather than by conviction. When Senator Borah urges in Atlanta the enforcement of the Fifteenth Amendment, and defends Volsteadism and its fruits in New York City, he may be in a position to discuss the political courage of others. But as long as he remains discreetly silent on the nullification of the Fifteenth Amendment and selects the heart of the dry belt as the appropriate place to preach the sacredness...
...principal speakers last evening were the former stars who are listed to take part in the grueling races which are scheduled to start at 2 o'clock this afternoon. A legion of stars returned to see the fifteenth anniversary of the classic American track and field contests, and most of them were to be found at the Hotel Algonquin last night, listening to and speaking of records which, they were all agreed would still be standing on the record books tonight...
...other French lecturer, Professor Michel-Charles Diehl of the Sorbonne will speak in Fine Arts 14f and 14g, the first on Byzantine Art in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and the latter on the Role of Syria in the formation and expansion of Byzantine...
...have my Vagabond mind rather worried, I shall wend my way to Sever 35 where Dr Maynadier at eleven o'clock promises to discuss a gentleman, hight Borrow, whose name has a subtle attraction for the wandering soul. This will prevent my hearing Professor Edgell in his lecture on Fifteenth Century Architecture at Fogg. But this Vagabond has as yet failed to develop a dual personality--and the name Borrow has such charm...