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...Manhattan, the Justice Department's drive on alien Communists caught up with Russia-born Irving Potash, vice president of the C.I.O.'s International Fur & Leather Workers Union, member of the Communist Party's national committee. He was hustled off to Ellis Island, where he joined four others held as deportable Communists.* He also joined them in what they cried was a hunger strike against their being denied bail. At week's end all were free on bond, pending hearings. None looked the worse for his fast...
...china and another of flat silverware, a coffee brewer, a carpet, a vacuum cleaner, an electric washing machine, a ten-piece mahogany bedroom set, a gas stove, an electric stove, a fitted calf handbag, an automatic ironer, four end tables, a kolinsky scarf, a pressure cooker, six pieces of leather luggage, a year's supply of bed linen, an electric mixer...
Hard slaps of leather on flesh will echo through the Indoor Athletic Building tonight, as the semi-finals and final University boxing championships get under way again...
Bernard Conal, director of political organization for PCA, and James Loeb, executive director of the ADA, are also expected to garnish the list of speakers, while August Tyler, political director of the anti-Communist ILGWU-AFL, and George Markham, legislative director of the allegedly Communist-dominated Fur and Leather Workers-CIO are also expected to join the "faculty...
...well enough, at Yale for its first game. The Elis led at the end of the first two chukkers, 18 to 0, while in the last two the score was much closer, 5 to 4. "Indoor polo is a higher scoring game than outdoor," players point out. An inflated leather ball, about the size of a grapefruit, is used instead of the usual willow root variety, which is harder to drive. This means scoring...