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...began to show insurgent leanings at 14 when he campaigned for farm organizations. He drifted to Panama to become a gang boss during the Canal's construction. A char ter member of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party, he was nominated for Vice President in 1924, declined to run. Ac tive in the steel strike of 1919. the packinghouse strikes of 1920, he was for six years editor of the People's Voice at Green Bay, Wis., is still editor of the Organized Farmer of Red Wing, Minn. Five years ago he addressed an envelope to a Red Wing...
...sort to either Queen Wilhelmina or the German public. Obeying strict orders from Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, German newspapers barely mentioned the Dutchman's execution, stating that "It was the purpose of the German Government to confront the public with an ac complished fact without long preliminary palavers as a token of justice, assurance, determination and as a warning to other international revolutionaries of the Communist persuasion." Since no correspondent witnessed the execution. Dr. Goebbels could and did put out an exclusive Government story of what occurred: At 5 p. m. Public Prosecutor Werner...
...attempt of the Society, ac- cording to Dr. Brinton, to honor these who show their scholarship by means of high marks in honors theses and divisional examinations rather than in mere course marks; and the election changes have been planned to this end. A survey of honor men for the last 12 years showed that approximately 200 men graduated magna cum laude, but did not make Phi Beta Kappa, while 100 members of the Society received only cum laude degrees. Nine Phi Beta Kappa men received no honor degree...
...mutineers try to make the captain holystone the deck, he kills the sober ringleader and is killed himself. Like all revolutions, the mutiny swings rapidly Left and toward the captain's beautiful widow. At the end of its swing it meets the mate who has gotten a pistol. Ac companied by thunder, lightning, howls and pistol shots, he gets control of ship and sweetheart...
...hausfrau were it not for her close-cropped head. (When her old friend Mme de Clermont-Tonnerre had her hair bobbed, Gertrude Stein decided to cut her hair short too. Alice Toklas did it for her.) Very democratic, proud of being a plain American, she likes people, is always ac- cessible to strangers. She confesses to inertia and a poor memory. An omnivorous reader, she was haunted in early life by the fear that some day she would have nothing left to read; nowadays she no longer worries about it. Though she lives in France (summers she spends...