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When the state of Georgia moved to revoke the charter of the anti-Negro, anti-Semitic Columbians, Inc. (TIME, Nov. 11), demagogic President Emory Burke disdainfully tore the charter to shreds, mailed the pieces to Assistant Attorney General Daniel Duke. The loss of a charter would not stop them. Last week khaki-shirted Columbians assembled for another hate feast...
Unreconverted. In Seattle, Sailor Thomas Washington climbed atop a five-story hotel, tore bricks out of the chimney, heaved them down at pedestrians, after 30 minutes of action (no casualties) was captured, explained that he was "sore at civilians...
...mass of Indian brawn and "wild masculine beauty," young Holdfast Uncas Gaines just bent over, tore the 400-lb. cannon from its carriage on the deck. He'd teach old George Ill's British redcoats to mess with a Connecticut Yankee ship...
...Without a Country. His opera survived only five performances at the Metropolitan, but Helen Traubel so impressed NBC officials that they offered her a $10,000 contract. Traubel soon decided that she liked neither the music she had to sing nor the way she had to sing it, and tore up the contract...
After appraising the new flock carefully. Ulen picked four as outstanding potential three of them west who are eligible for Varsity competition despite Freshman standing. Charlie Grover tore off some fast laps, and showed the polish in stroke and turn that characterized his N.A.A.U. competitions in Boston last year...