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Significance. President William Green of the American Federation of Labor, solidly conservative, sat quietly in Washington. Most active strike leader on the ground was lean-faced, mild-mannered Communist Foster. Against him, radical as they come, no cry of "foreigner" could be raised by patriotic coal operators because he was born at Taunton, Mass., 50 years ago. Last year he languished six months in a New York City jail for leading a Red demonstration at Union Square against police orders. He emerged just in time to run for Governor of New York on the Communist ticket, poll 18,034 votes...
...facts was more than made up for to the Press by Starr Faithfull's background and home life. The family, occupying one floor of a brownstone house, consisted of Starr, her sister, her mother and stepfather, Stanley Faithfull, a not prosperous chemist and salesman for a pneumatic mattress concern. Lean, gimlet-eyed, red-whiskered, bewildered, he talked & talked to the thronging newshawks who came away with many conflicting stories and white lies. For some reason his daughter was made an "heiress" by the first sensational stories, a description soon dropped by all but the tabloids. But other newspapers kept...
...enraged all the Pribicheviches was the Government's announced resolve to banish Brother Svetozar Pribichevich for a second time to the tiny Serbian village of Brus, 20 miles from the nearest railway. When told last week that he would be sent back to Brus, Svetozar Pribichevich, a small, lean man, dramatically went on a hunger strike. Wailed Mme Bosilka Pribichevich: "My Svetozar will die! He will die!" "Svetozar," cried Col. Milan Pribichevich, "will die rather than yield!" "Svetozar will never yield to the Dictatorship!" cried Adam Pribichevich...
...before 1929 fortune made several spectacular visits to him, tarried and vanished. The first market break found him in a good cash position and he exuberantly began "selling the list," and he sold time and again. Soon the Danforth legend began to grow (TIME, Oct. 28, 1929). His tall, lean figure became familiar in the inner sanctums of Manhattan's speculating circles. Indian-like in appearance, he maintained an Indian's calm, made no tactical blunders. Aged 45, he likes golf, plays at the Westchester Country Club with other big market operators. He likes airplanes, flies about...
Jordan's Men. In the early days at Stanford, pioneering Dr. Jordan said: "The problem of life is not to make life easier but to make men stronger." One of his first students at Stanford in 1891 was lean, shy young "Bert" Hoover, just down from Oregon. Next year came 6-ft.-4-in., 17-year-old "Rex" Wilbur of Riverside, Calif.? The friendship begun at college between these two?like the friendship between Co-eds Lou Henry and Marguerite Blake whom they later married ?was to live long. Dr. Jordan was to be specially conscious of Bert...