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Lieut. George Perpente, second wing leader, hesitated for a split second. Beckham barked at him again...
...roamed Europe, sudying political economy, writing political tracts, making political friends, deepening her political color sense. She met Lenin in London, Trotsky in New York City. She joined the old Russian Social Democratic Party before there was a Communist (Bolshevik) Party. When the split came, she spurned the Bolsheviki (the majority), embraced the Mensheviki (the minority), and went back to St. Petersburg to take a small hand in the 1905 uprisings. In 1911 she was fighting capitalism in Paris, in 1912, militarism in Stockholm, in 1913, anti-Semitism in London...
That night, before a crowd of 19,066, Montgomery won a split decision over Beau Jack and regained the lightweight championship. He won by some cool, canny boxing-and by holding his breath...
...minutes in 1930 −long enough to be sworn in as Senator. In 1932 he was re-elected two years before the New Deal tide really began to run in Pennsylvania. In 1938 he came back when the New Deal tide was ebbing and his Democratic opposition was split. Each time he won without the support of the State G.O.P. machine. Each time Pennsylvania's two Rich Joes-Pew and Grundy −were forced to sit back for another six-year wait to bash Puddler...
Last week a new development was re ported which may solve the industry's labor problem and make beet-growing selfsupporting: scientists had learned how to get single beet seeds. The American Society of Sugar Beet Technologists' was jubilant. Thanks to the seed-splitting dis covery, beet growing would be largely mechanized in 1944. The beet-sugar pro duction quota had been upped 50%. One big beet man exulted: "The beet-sugar industry will soon compete with sugar cane - without coolie labor!" The man who split the beet seed is Roy Bainer, an agriculture teacher at the University...