Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Declaring the Mayor's reputation, private life, and aims are "tossed about like leaves in an autumn wind," John F. Hylan, Mayor of New York, attacks the interests and defends his own regime in the following special article to the Crimson on the subject of "College Men in Politics...
...Mayor is denied the same protection which is accorded to other citizens. His reputation, his private life, and his official aims and purposes are often tossed about like leaves in an autumn wind. There is no exaggeration in that statement...
...There will be labor trouble this autumn." That is a prediction few people like to hear, but it is being made. Last week, a loud squeak broke the long labor peace. U. S. marshals in West Virginia arrested four members of the United Mine Workers. They refused bail, were jailed. Warrants were issued for other labor organizers and even for the master of them all-John L. Lewis. Their crime, if any, seems to have been an attempt to unionize a section which, by legal agreement, is nonunion...
...worse. Cooperative trading between town and village broke down; industrial unrest assumed alarming proportions at Leningrad and Moscow; the peasants stuck more closely than ever to their hoarded grain; the capitalists, such few as there were, were hounded into inactivity. On top of this, came heavy frost in the autumn before the first snowfall, with incalculable damage to the sown grain. Abroad, Communism saw an intractable U. S., a change of Government in Britain, that could hardly be looked upon as favorable to Russia. It secured recognition in Italy, France, some other countries,*but no appreciable benefits. Early this year...
...after a remarkably successful road tour. In my opinion, it is the most important work of George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly. It is filled with Mr. Connelly's curious fantasy and delicate humor?the same that promises to be in evidence when his new play opens in the autumn, that was notably apparent in the small sketch he recently wrote and acted in for The Dutch Treat Club Show, annual performance of that jour- nalists' and artists' society...