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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...locals in Canada, thereby justifying a resounding "international" in its title. For months there have been some 20,000 Ontario members of unions affiliated with C.I.O. But shrewd "Mitch" Hepburn had apparently done himself no harm by waiting until Sit-Down alarm had boiled across the border to begin his one-man stand against an alien invasion. As a coming man in Canadian politics, pointed to succeed Mackenzie King as Dominion Prime Minister, his rousing blasts at "John L. Lewis and communism" were nicely calculated not only to make a surefire appeal to Canada's patriotic masses, but also...
...morning last week in Milwaukee, 64-year-old Fred Ernst Yahr arrived to begin another day's work at the Yahr-Lange Drug Co., of which he had been president, general manager and principal stockholder for 18 years. Before he reached his office he learned that none of the 115 employes in the seven-floor establishment was turning a hand in the interest of Yahr-Lange's prosperous wholesale trade. When he got to his desk, his chief accountant, his sales manager and his credit manager were waiting to tell...
...most talented babes of Babes In Arms are apparently not even eligible to operate a motor vehicle at night in New York State, where full driving privileges begin at 18. One is Mitzi Green, a stripling advertised as 16 who used to be a child star in the films, progressed to a juvenile radio program which she surprisingly forsook this winter to entertain at a Manhattan night club called Versailles, a house where innocence is as rare as courtesy. There Miss Green did impersonations, the most painful of which-a re-enactment of Luise Rainer's big sob scene...
...Yokohama, famed blind & deaf Helen Adams Keller debarked with her secretary Peggy Thompson amid thunderous cheers to begin a Japanese lecture tour during which she was to be received by Emperor Hirohito. Newspapers greeted her as "the American miracle woman," and she cried to the welcoming crowd in Japanese: "Hail, beautiful Japan! I have received a most wonderful greeting which has strengthened me. I shall bear myself with strength forever." Few minutes later a pickpocket stole her purse containing $60. Next day an anonymous Japanese vindicated his country's honor by leaving $60 at Miss Keller's hotel...
...Sophomore, can write, and want to earn a place in the College as an influence on College thinking, you might as well report at the CRIMSON building at 7:30 o'clock tonight. The annual spring editorial competition is about to begin...