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...Point last week the Connecticut Democracy, long a minority in State politics, convened to make nominations for the November election. From Homer Stille Cummings, onetime chairman of the Democratic National Committee, down to the youngest of the 1,000 delegates at the Griswold Hotel, the party representatives had one antagonist in mind: big-bodied, hard-eyed John Henry Roraback, Republican National Committeeman, for 18 years Connecticut's firm-fisted G. O. P. Boss, president of Connecticut Light & Power Co. To break Boss Roraback's grip, the Democrats at Eastern Point informally decided to put up for Governor...
Organized Labor was not so vociferous against the appointment of Charles Evans Hughes to the Supreme Court as it was against John Johnston Parker (TIME, May 12). But those who did cry out against Mr. Hughes said they feared him as a prime representative of Vested Property, old antagonist of Labor. Notable, therefore, was a Supreme Court decision last week, written by Chief Justice Hughes and unanimously approved by his liberal as well as his conservative colleagues, in which one of Vested Property's greatest swords was shown to have two edges, to cut two ways. Chief Justice Hughes...
...present time Salvemini is a man without a country, because of his anti-Fascist views as a professor of History at the University of Florence, and he is considered the unquestioned leader of the anti-Fascists, and the foremost antagonist of Mussolini...
...went into voluntary exile, which subsequently became permanent. Losing his citizenship he became a man without a country, and since that time has acted as the unquestioned intellectual leader of the anti-Fascists. Unqualifiedly opposed to Fascism, which he considers a backward step, Professor Salvemini is now the ablest antagonist of Mussolini...
Once he fought a strange duel: he and his opponent hid themselves behind targets on an artillery range, lay there all day under the gunfire. At dusk Gurdjieff, unharmed, rescued his antagonist who was wounded, unconscious. He spent his youth wandering in the East, trying everything once. Say his followers, in the Tibetan mountains he found traces of a forgotten way of life, as old as Pythagoras (532 B. C..); he returned to Europe to teach it to a few. He bought the medieval prieuré at Fontainebleau. turned it into his Institute. Institutees lived simply, worked hard, learned complicated Eastern...