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...Benson, carrying the Socialist banner in 1916, polled only 585,113. In 1920 Debs, then a prisoner in the Atlanta Federal penitentiary for violating the Espionage Act, made his fifth run for the Presidency, rolled up the surprising total of 919,799 votes. Four years later the Socialist party threw its lot in with Senator Robert Marion La Follette whose independent presidential candidacy drew 4,882,856 votes from the two old parties.* In 1928 Norman Thomas got only 267,420 votes...
Into the dickering pot Stanley Melbourne ("Handsomest") Bruce threw an Australian ultimatum in the form of a 5,500-word handout to the Press. Mentioning Argentina, Russia and Denmark by name, fighting Mr. Bruce demanded that the Mother Country cut down her imports of Argentine meat, Danish dairy products and Russian wheat and lumber either by Dipping her tariff or by a quota system forcing buyers in the United Kingdom to import more of these things from the Dominions, especially Australia. Mr. Bruce added a long list of articles (notably meat) on which Australia wants preferential treatment, asserting of course...
...join the seven cats on the widow's back fence came the tomcat's second mate. She brought four kittens. The neighbors complained more vociferously, threw shoes, clocks, crockery. Six more cats came forth. The neighbors went to Spokane's Humane Society. The Humane Society went to Widow Dornsife. The widow produced cats Nos. 19, 20, 21, 22. The Health Department appealed to Widow Dornsife. Widow Dornsife shrugged her aged shoulders, seven more cats appeared. Officers went to the widow's house, were beaten back by 29 snarling, spitting cats...
...Passfield, insists she is Beatrice Webb. Lately these two leading Socialists, Laborites and economists set out on a junket to Moscow. If they thought they would receive a luxurious welcome such as was lavished last year on George Bernard Shaw (TIME, Aug. 10), they were right. The Soviet Government threw open its expensive "Guest House" for the Lord & Lady. With the discrimination of an epicure Lord Passfield ate and ate of caviar...
Toast after toast was downed in Soviet champagne. The Passfields were started out on a circular luxury tour of Russia, just such a tour as threw Mr. Shaw into panegyrics. Last week the circle was completed, the Lord & Lady returned to Moscow and tart-tongued Beatrice Webb spoke...