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Through their interest in farming cooperatives, the Nielsens joined the social-democratic Canadian Cooperative Commonwealth Federation Party. But though she had become a power in the C. C. C. F., Mrs. Nielsen split from them in 1939, formed her own Unity Party, a coalition against the powerful Liberals...
...blood-curdling shrick split the air. All the nerves in the Vag's body leaped screaming to their feet and sunk their teeth in his aching head. When he hit the ground and his senses began to return he sent a quick, terrified look about the room. Yet everything looked the same. The roof was still in place, and the delivery desk still retained its immemorial position. He sank limply back in his seat. A second screech, louder than the first, struck him between the eyeballs. As the echoes died away in the furthermost corners of the old building...
...Department of Justice announcement pointed a finger at more than Boss Petrillo. It also mentioned "complaints" about the booking business, bore out recent rumors that trust busters are interested in the setup by which NBC and CBS split most of the U. S. concert trade. Each has a subsidiary (NBC Artists Service, Columbia Concerts Corp.) which, through an offspring (Civic Concerts, Community Concerts), supplies U. S. concertgoers with block-booked talent or nothing...
...about the first ten minutes of the varsity game it looked as if the Crimson might be on the way to an upset. Captain Pren Willetts took the puck from scrimmage, hesitated a split second, and fired a low shot past the Eli goaler, Cord Meyer, into the corner of the cage...
...designing the proposed new Yard, the students, who split up into four different groups, placed all dormitories on the north side of the open space and all classrooms and administrative offices on the south side...