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Little known is the County Council, elected by London householders to sit obscurely in the colonnaded pile of the County Hall across the Thames from the Embankment. Much better known is the Lord Mayor, but he lords it over only the half square mile known as The City. Snug in the knowledge that Labor had never yet won a city election, the Conservatives dozed through the Councilmen's campaign. They stirred uneasily last week when a Labor crowd in Camberwell Baths howled Conservative Newspaper Publisher Lord Beaverbrook off the platform and sang "The Red Flag." Next morning his Daily...
Still digging deep into the refuse pile of canceled airmail contracts. Alabama's smart little Senator Black last week plucked out some new names that made news because of their connections with the Senate...
...days later Queen Mary and the Duke of York went to see the samples. Foraging by himself, the Duke of York discovered a pile of striped pajamas. "Men never buy this sort of thing for themselves," declared H.R.H. "I think bright fashions in men's pajamas were designed to catch the eyes of the wives...
...members of the House of Representatives got a share of the pickings. Few great names (Washington's is an exception) escape McConaughy's scorn. Few schoolboys who remember that Patrick Henry asked for liberty or death have been told that he later made his pile in the Yazoo land swindle. Famed Chief Justice John Marshall is yanked from his niche, called the rock on which the Funding Fathers "rested secure in the enjoyment of special privileges...
...pile the onus for a prospective war still higher on Japan Karl Radek, No. 1 Soviet journalist and propagandist, wrote for Izvestia: "Having seized Manchuria and improved railroad transportation systems there and constructed many new air-dromes, the Japanese military now openly propagates the necessity of war with the Soviet Union. The U. S. S. R. does not observe these military preparations with folded hands but openly prepares to defend Soviet territory...