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...Said Brennan: 'Sam took his sweetheart out in a rowboat and they quarreled, and Sam threw her overboard, and every time she came up he hit her on the head with an oar. Wasn't it awful...
...December by falling downstairs healed slowly, painfully. Still buzzing in his head was his noble notion: "Conditions are bad, not men." But last week when George's Son Edgar published a book called My Father, it was of men, not conditions that he spoke. In fact, Son Edgar threw open the door on the bitter meetings of that unhappy Labor Cabinet in which George Lansbury was First Commissioner of Works. In so doing he violated the British taboo that Cabinet discussions are sacred. Edgar had consulted neither the King nor the Prime Minister. George V did not much care...
...representatives in the Cortes had broken two Lerroux Cabinets. As regu- larly as clocks in a clock shop, the workers struck. By last week the plunging bronze horses on the pinnacle of Madrid's Banco de Bilbao were no more restless than Spanish Labor. Eighty thousand building workers threw down their tools because a handful of contractors was holding out against a 44-hour week. Over a thousand men walked out of a tobacco factory because one "Conservative" porter had been hired. Last week Premier Lerroux pieced together a third Cabinet and tried "alarm." To prevent it from alarming...
...Three Forks, Mont., when a farmer complained that his cows were being milked by marauders at night, deputy sheriffs kept watch. Their vigil was rewarded when the complainant appeared in his nightgown, milked his own cows, threw the milk to his sleeping pigs, somnambulated back...
...only Crimson entry to survive the semi-final round of the Intercollegiate Championship, being held at State College. Four Harvard men battled their way to the semi-finals, but three of them were defeated in that event after putting up a strong fight. Aranson, of the 175-pound class threw Louis Kreizman of Pennsylvania State College with a body hold after a match of seven minutes and 58 seconds, and will enter the finals tonight. Edward T. Farley '36 in the 145-pound class was forced to bow before the skill of Captain Hasse of the Yale team after five...