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Northwestern University's enormous Patten Gymnasium resounded shrilly with high school cheers. It was the national interscholastic track championships. When the high hurdles were strung out for the 60-yard race, a dusky shadow whisked over them during the heats, and burst the red yarn first in a fleet final. The same shadow flitted through the low hurdles, placed second. Then it took second pace in the high jump and was hero of the meet. This shadow was Runner Loving of Cass Technical High School, Detroit. His teammate, Runner Talan, also a Negro, rushed in second...
Pennsylvania is a Republican state−just as solid as the Democratic solid South. Hence all these men are Republicans. In the background who are the powers? There is Andrew Mellon (he could have a whole fleet of yachts). There is also his nephew, William L. Mellon. There is Ralph Beaver Strassburger (he married into the Singer Sewing Machine family). There is J. R. Grundy, President of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association. There is also in the background (so far as this year's Senatorial contest is concerned) Senator David Aiken Reed, also worth a few millions. But the three candidates...
...take the creature alive as well as dead. It is an anachronism from the age of reptiles that they have in mind a lizard that is known to grow to the size of a crocodile, that is, 18 to 21 feet long; a carnivore, a night prowler, a fleet traveler on large but silent feet, which raise his snaky chest and belly clear of the ground. He is called "boeaja darat" and "land crocodile" by the Dutch, who have shot him as long as 12 feet. He is an object of abject terror among the island natives because...
...need to be concerned about the recent fall of prices on the New York Stock Exchange. 2) That he expected a favorable outcome in the negotiations with Mexico over the application of their new agrarian laws. 3) That he wanted to see the Shipping Board and the Emergency Fleet Corporation divorced and the latter put under a single head for reasons of efficiency, but he did not care whether the head of the Government merchant fleet is responsible to him or to Congress; until Congress clears up the situation he will not fill the present vacancy on the Shipping Board...
...submarines built for the Greek Government are now practically complete at the St. Nazaire shipyards on the Loire (France), and that contracts have been approved for two Greek "super-submarines." Observers recalled the words of Dictator Pangalos (TiME, Jan. 11) : "Greece in a few months will have a fleet dominating the eastern basin of the Mediterranean...