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...they died. He praised them for their bravery, but lamented the fact that their cause had been unworthy of such sacrifice. Upon hearing this insult to his cause, one of the men, who had been wounded in the head by a bayonet, tore the bandages from his head and bled to death before he could be subdued...
...Rukeyser the idea for her poem, had worked at his book with the zeal of a medieval monk. A Catholic socialist who had spent months in Nazi concentration camps, von Ripper knew persecution at first hand. He filled his book with floggings, cadaverous nudes, autopsical goons, who hacked and bled through its pages with all the angular bleakness of rigor mortis. Three of his pages had to be done over because of small typographical errors. It took him two years of patient etching and hand-printing to turn out 60 copies. If he manages to sell half of them...
...SoldOut." The people of Rumania have been bled white with taxes in the past few years to build up an Army, an Air Force and the nearest thing in the Balkans to a Maginot Line - the Carol Line. These fortifications were to bulwark Rumania against an expected attack from Hungary. When in Vienna last fortnight Germany and Italy forced Rumania to give up one-half of Transylvania and the Carol Line to Hungary (TIME, Sept. 9), the instinctive reaction of many Rumanians was that the Government had let them be robbed. It took no great efforts of the Nazi Iron...
Hopkins obediently buckled to the task. The big machine leaders trooped in. were told what they had to do, wryly faced around and trooped out. But now the delegates-Democrats wha hae wi' Wallace bled-were hopping mad. Eleanor Roosevelt, who had flown on to address the Convention, failed to calm them in a speech emphasizing the terrible burden of the Presidency in these times. On the floor Henry Wallace had no more than 50 personal votes. But candidate after candidate withdrew. One of them, tall ioo%er Senator Scott Lucas of Illinois, purged himself...
...Labor struggled, suffered, bled, racketeered and rioted, picketed and paraded its way toward industrial democracy for three-quarters of a century. In all those years labor had no national legal protection. In the U. S. were no laws against black lists, white lists, yellow-dog contracts, labor spies, propaganda, professional strikebreaking. On the contrary, the U. S. Supreme Court had specifically proclaimed the employer's power to discharge men for union activity.- But by 1935 Congress had put teeth in Section 7A of the old National Industrial Recovery Act, brought out the National Labor Relations (Wagner...