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...their beds in the five-story rookery lay more than 100 tenants. The fire, starting on the third floor, shot up the stair well, down the hallways and through the flimsy walls and doors as if they were paper. By the time the fire department arrived the whole interior was roaring like a blast furnace. Seven tenants were cooked alive. Week before in New York City six persons were incinerated in tenements. Week before that ten were burned alive. Since Jan. 1, 48 persons have died in 25 tenement fires. After one fire last month in a notorious slum area...
...following articles was written especially for the Crimson by Ray Lyman Wilbur, president of Stanford University and former Secretary of the interior in President Hoover's cabinet...
...Government was furious. Nobody knew that Samuel Insull still had $10.000, unless, perhaps, it was the Ministry of the Interior. Premier Tsaldaris promptly forced Minister of the Interior M. J. Mountsourides to resign. Greek public opinion was outraged at this slur on the nation's honor, at this insult to a friendly power. Admiral Hadjikyriakos. commander of the Greek navy, radioed the malodorous Maiotis to return to Piraeus instantly. The ship swung round. Samuel Insull, smiling happily under his new black mustache, thought he was bound for Abyssinia, one of the few spots in all the world where...
...contractors was holding out against a 44-hour week. Over a thousand men walked out of a tobacco factory because one "Conservative" porter had been hired. Last week Premier Lerroux pieced together a third Cabinet and tried "alarm." To prevent it from alarming too much, the Minister of the Interior explained that the new7 state was "not because of any dangerous conditions, but because of the possibilities that attempts may be made against the public order"-i. e., strikes. Grimly he added, "The Government's authority to intervene in labor disputes will be fully respected before the state...
...interior rooms are depicted by side wings and backdrop on which the furniture is painted. Music is sung at intervals by a gay-clad quartet, accompanied by a spinnet