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Besides Wald, the meeting's scheduled speakers were Richard Barnet, co-director of the Institute for Policy Studies, a liberal think-tank based in Washington; Alnita Bond, a field organizer for Local 1199, a hospital workers' union; and Hubert Jones, associate professor of Urban planning...
...combat drinking in colleges formally ratified by the conference were propositions to approach the alumni in an effort to curtail drinking at class reunions and football games; to line up the fraternities and other undergraduate organizations on the side of strict enforcement: and a recommendation that the efforts of local agents be made to show greater results...
...Members of Parliament signed a petition asking King George to sign a pardon for two sheepdogs belonging to an M. P., which were convicted of worrying sheep in Scotland. The dogs had been sentenced to death by a local Police Court. An appeal was made to the Secretary for Scotland, who replied that he could reprieve a man but not a dog. The Lord Advocate advised that only the King could save the dogs. One of the guilty dogs is about to become a mother...
Davidov, member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, was sent to Stavropol, Ciscaucasia, to investigate the execution of hundreds of peasants by the Cheka, former secret political police, for resisting tax-collectors. Davidov was just leaving a meeting in the local Soviet, after endorsing the Cheka's policy, when his brains were dashed out by an axe wielded by the son of one of the Cheka's victims...
...Labor bank gone directly into the investment banking field. Moreover, it was regarded as significant that the first appearance of the Brotherhood. Bank should be made jointly with the National City Company, the investment subsidiary of the largest bank in this country. The Labor bank has handled small local issues in Cleveland and even had a "silent participation" in large issues before. It reserved its first public appearance until it could join with one of the premier underwriting organizations in the country...