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Secretary of Labor Davis, however, had evidently been given full charge of bituminous ambiguities. Secretary Davis listened all one afternoon to blocky, shock-headed President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers, whom he told he was "going to get busy with both sides at once." Director Hugh L. Kerwin of the Department of Labor's conciliation board, was another attentive listener to President Lewis. President Daniel Willard of the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. said, during the coaldusted week: "I cannot speak for the other railroads*, but as far as the Baltimore & Ohio is concerned...
...Manhattan. Having business upon the 16th floor, he enquired for the stairs. Such, however, was the appearance of the elevator starter that he allowed himself to be cajoled by friends into accepting a lift. "Let me out at the 16th floor, please," he said. With amazement and a shock of terror, he watched the operator press a little button on a switchboard at his elbow. As other passengers entered the polished car, the operator pressed a button for each, corresponding to the designated floor. Finally, at a gesture from the starter, the operator touched a lever within the car, causing...
...with something of a shock that the Vagabond read in yesterday's CRIMSON under the heading of "The Press" a clipping casting the reproach of crescent materialism upon what is in a modest sort of way the clay, so to speak, for the Vagabond's statue, the merchandise, if you must, of his business--namely, the Harvard curriculum. The writer of the clipping raised, figuratively speaking, his hands in well simulated horror at the thought that whereas the University "has a gigantic new Business School" it offers only 5 courses in Greek, while Princeton and Yale take their places...
...General Secretary of the Polit-bureau (Political Bureau) of the Communist Party, in which the supreme power of the party is vested. Like his comrades, M. Stalin (Starleen) suffered imprisonment and banishment for his revolutionary activities. He is distinguished by a well-shaped head surrounded by a shock of black hair, just beginning to grey. He has a silky black mustache. His eyes are black, and rarely is there a gleam of merriment in them. His facial features suggest cruelty-a hard mask of oriental ruthlessness. He is a silent man, not given to speechifying; and behind his mask lies...
...death of Payson Dana in the Prime of his manhod comes as a great shock to his classmates, and indeed to a very large circle of Harvard graduates who had learned to count on his fine spirit and zeal...