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...full-scale labor racketeering in New York, sold "strike insurance" to contractors, peddled "privilege to work" cards to non-unionists, and cleared a cool million dollars. Brindell ultimately was jailed for extortion after a special state investigation. Investigator Samuel Untermeyer formally urged the A.F.L. convention of 1922 to get rid of "Brindell's crony, Hutcheson, who has been an evil influence...
...This Week. To pull it out of the slump, Publisher Hearst called in a magazine specialist, Ernest V. Heyn, 47, who founded and edited Modern Screen for Dell publications, started Sport for Macfadden. Some drastic changes showed up in last week's issue of the Weekly. Heyn got rid of the Weekly's old-fashioned clothes by dumping the wispy, candybox-cover girls. A new editorial diet replaced the oldtime brew of bloodshed, bosoms and pseudo-science that had built the Weekly up in its heyday, but let it down in its old age. (The first Weekly editor...
...Their 'pooled self-esteem' as one might call it, will certainly revolt at any further submission to the European. They would love to be rid of him. But the great question is, can they, and still keep their power...
...process of giving Dudley a Senior Tutor along with the other seven Houses, the University has raised the Commuters' Center greatly in the eyes of the commuters themselves. At last they will be in some respect equal to the resident students. This new-found equality should do much to rid the commuter of the weighty inferiority complex that he has been carrying for many years...
Cecil Hinshaw, noted pacifist, pointed out that the way to peace is not through a military build-up, but instead, through an extended "Point Four" program designed to get rid of the conditions which foster communism. Daniel H. Fenn, Jr. '44, director of the United Council on World Affairs and ex-assistant Freshman dean at Harvard, supported the shortrange policy of containment of Russia, but said that we must work for a stronger long-range plan...