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...Immingham Dock, Humber River, in the north of England, the little freighter Backworth last week loaded $10,000 worth of sugar, flour, fruit and dried salt fish for starving Basques in Spain's besieged Bilbao. More than one-tenth of the cargo was paid for by David Lloyd George who seldom misses a chance to make political capital of anything. Down to the dock hurried Britain's Wartime Prime Minister to wring Captain Russell of the Backworth by the hand...
...years every U. S. labor union worth its salt has had locals in Canada, thereby justifying a resounding "international" in its title. For months there have been some 20,000 Ontario members of unions affiliated with C.I.O. But shrewd "Mitch" Hepburn had apparently done himself no harm by waiting until Sit-Down alarm had boiled across the border to begin his one-man stand against an alien invasion. As a coming man in Canadian politics, pointed to succeed Mackenzie King as Dominion Prime Minister, his rousing blasts at "John L. Lewis and communism" were nicely calculated not only to make...
Gambling done good-humoredly is a great thrill. The trick is to know when to stop and take it all with a grain of salt. And though the Casino has made Monte-Carlo's reputation, still there are other things even for a student on the vacation from Oxford. To wander in the mountains and see the flowers is alone worth the trip here. And then to have the natives tell you the story of every flower that the breath of a flower is it's perfume; and that you should eat the honey--for then you can taste...
With the Virginia game washed out, the squad traveled to Georgetown where another defeat was tacked on them, 16-15 in a ten inning game played in a steady drizzle and ankle-deep mud. Georgetown scored five runs in the final frame to salt away the encounter...
...does something to the pit of our stomach. Second, we baked our back on the beach the first day, cooked it so fine you could have sold it to the Union for roast beef au jus. Finally, the golf and tennis and the white sails and blue water and salt spray flying had such an allure that we almost didn't come home at all. And when we did arrive in Cambridge weeks late, the Dean's office was nasty,--very nasty indeed. University Hall drew itself up and puffed in indignation to think that anyone could have a good...