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...While Green and Lewis still sulked, C.I.O. and A.F. of L. sub-chieftains worked smoothly together under the Defense Commission's Labor Coordinator: 1. Frances Perkins. 2. Daniel J. Tobin. 3. David Dubinsky. 4. Tom Girdler. 5. Sidney Hillman...
Thus the U. T. "a place of pleasing, simple beauty in the Italian Renaissance period of Florentine art" became a part of Harvard of the Roaring Twenties. That was the day when Freshmen were men and every proctor carried a sub-machine gun. The U. T., as a precautionary measure, employed a bouncer who was pitcher on the Varsity baseball team and tipped the scales at 220. He was assigned to "take care" of the bathtub-gin addicts and his life was a busy...
...Finland Station is also a symbol. Here, in the person of Lenin, socialism first issued from the dank sub-cellars of contemporary society, where like an exterminating virus it had developed in the dark. Here socialism first ceased to be merely a theory and became a political reality. Here it prepared to master a great State, rule 170,000,000 people. But Lenin was wrong about the world revolution. It was not until 20 years later that three variants of socialism-Stalinism, Naziism, Fascism-were to combine under German leadership in a world revolution against democratic, capitalist civilization...
...peaceful wooded hills of northern New Jersey, at Kenvil, lie the 400 acres of one of Hercules Powder Co.'s seven explosive plants. In this sub-sylvan spot, men, treading softly, cook a recipe of destruction...
Modern teachers believe that dull children are worth cultivating, have shown that with proper encouragement a sub-par child may produce remarkable paintings, sculpture, craftsmanship. They have been less successful in teaching such children to read and write...