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Soviet Russia is in the throes of a book revolution. Twenty-seven works of Jack London in editions of 10,000 each were published by the Government Publishing House. More are required. Upton Sinclair's Jimmie Higgins exhausted two 10,000 editions in three months; 25,000 of his Jungle were sold; his 100% has an almost unlimited sale." Sinclair Lewis' Main Street and Babbit were sold out before the printing was finished. A 10,000 edition of 0. Henry was absorbed in Moscow. H. G. Wells War in the Air ran through a 15,000 edition...
...privilege. On the Republican Executive Committee there are eight men and eight women, but since the officers of the Republican National Committee are ex-officio members of the Executive Committee, the women are outvoted. Mrs. Medill McCormick (wife of the Senator from Illinois), Mrs. Arthur Livermore, Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton are among the women members of the Executive Committee. Mr. Adams, Chairman of the National Committee, has not the power to decide whether women shall constitute half of the National Committee-that decision will devolve on the National Convention...
...Upton Sinclair, Socialist novelist, was arrested for " breach of the peace and obstruction of traffic," at San Pedro (port of Los Angeles). There had been a strike of marine transport workers in San Pedro. It was charged to the I. W. W. Los Angeles (which probably comes nearer to being a non-union city than any other place of its size; memories of the McNamara dynamiting help to keep it so) threw a number of I. W. W. members into a prison stockade. Sinclair summoned a protest meeting on Liberty Hill, and started to read Article I of the Constitution...
...have distinguished themselves in scholarship and general class activities. Books and checks were awarded to George O'Hanlon 2G.B. and Henry Reiff '25, while the following Freshmen were awarded books: Henry Melvin Hart Jr. of Spokane, Wash., Nathaniel Saltonstall Howe of New York City, John Elliott Knowlton of West Upton, and Dean Earl Wood of Kansas City...
...Federation has always aimed to avoid political partisanship. Its non-partisan character was testified by the presence in Atlanta of Harriet Taylor Upton, Vice Chairman of the Republican National Committee, and Emily Newell Blair, occupying the same position for the Democratic National Committee...