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Stead still claims to have socialist tendencies, a legacy from her father who combined radical opinions with marine biology. On the feminist movement, the creator of Henny Pollit keeps a philosophical distance: "It's a very old thing," she observes. "I'm all for bettering and equalizing conditions and pay for women, but I'm not interested in all the funny business that goes...
Members of the Harvard group are Charles D. Aldrich '40, Benjamin, Robert S. Clements '40, Ernst M. Jandort '41, Peter G. Kirby '38, Richard R. Mudge '39, William N. Parker '39, F. Welch Peel '39, Basil R. Pollit '40, Lawrence I. Radway '40, Richard A. Solomon '39, Harold LeR. Stubbs...
...officers elected are: George R. Ellis 1G.B., president; Hume Dow '38, vice-president in charge of speakers; George L. Weissman '39, vice-president in charge of literature; Robert R. Ross '37, assistant speakers committee; Howard Houseman 3L., secretary; Robert H. Chase '38, treasurer; and Basil Pollit '40, Freshman representative...
...Albert Samuel Inkpin, 41, secretary of the British Communist party ; William Charles Rust, 22, secretary of the Young Communists' League; Harry Pollit, 30 boiler maker and member of the executive board of the Communist Internationale; William Gallacher, 43, brass finisher; and Walter Hannington, 30, engineer. † John Ross Campbell, Editor of the Workers' Weekly; Arthur McManus, head of the colonial department of the Communist Party; John Thomas Murphy, head of its political bureau ; Robert Page Arnot, director of the Labor Research Department; E. W. Cant, Communist organizer; Thomas W. Wintringham, journalist; Thomas Bell, engineer...
...this group Harry Pollit is notable as "the ablest Communist in Great Britain." At the International Trade Unionist Conference at Scarborough (TIME, Sept. 21), he was one of those most instrumental in rushing through the "motion of censure against the British Empire," which so alarmed reactionaries. And it was he who cried that, because of the machinations of the Conservatives, "every inch of the Empire is drenched with blood...