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...overexertion. In a big textile mill just outside Moscow the manager, ordered to Stakhanovize, told "girls with strong legs" tending two looms that if they thought they could stand the strain of tending four he would gladly increase their pay so long as they could keep it up. With sweat standing out from every pore one such Heroine of Labor paused long enough to pant at correspondents: "I asked for it! It's hard work, but I wanted to make more. You are on the run all the time, but after a few bumps you learn the shortest...
...date he stands broadly for Economy and the Constitution. He advocates social justice without the New Deal, an agricultural export subsidy for the Farmers instead of AAA, collective bargaining for Labor without the coercion of the Wagner Bill. An old fox runs slowly, lest in his agitation his sweat leave a stronger trail for his pursuers. Somewhat on this principle, it was the pre-War fashion for aspirants to the Presidential nomination to proceed quietly in the early stages of the race. But if the highly successful premature activities of Mr. Hoover in 1927 and Mr. Roosevelt in 1931 have...
...have to sign it. It worried me badly for I had only three minutes left to live. Then my secretary said she couldn't finish typing the proclamation in three minutes. Guards started carrying me into the little green room. It was then that I awoke in a cold sweat...
Ebalgume! Cut them down! Cut them down!" The breeze shifted, carrying the echo louder to the reviewing stand, and bringing with it a great stench of sweat, steaming horseflesh, and rancid butter with which Ethiopian warriors pomade their locks. Thus Crown Prince Asfa Wassan last week reviewed the troops whose commander he had just been made, troops almost certain to be the first to oppose the Italian advance next month, and to try to repeat the great victory of Adowa 39 years ago when the cry of "Ebalgume! Ebalgume!" chilled the heart of Italy...
Before sunrise on the racetrack a mile away dockers glanced at stopwatches in their hands while horses, unnumbered and ridden by exercise boys or jockeys in sweat shirts, galloped through a soft summer mist. Events of the week...