Word: centrals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...representing western miners, Socialists and remnants of the defunct American Labor Union. The purpose was to create a new, homogeneous labor body embracing not only the trade union memberships but unorganized agricultural and other unskilled laborers as well, especially the migratory ("foot-loose") class. "One big union" was the central idea of the autonomous crafts in operative idea of the autonomous crafts in the A. F. of L. The I. W. W. was for political action as well as economic. It was to prepare workers for a "Cooperative Commonwealth." Its constitution said: "The working class and the employing class have...
Died. Sir Robert Arundell Hudson, secretary of the (British) Liberal Central Association for 32 years, architectural expert and engineer. Twice married, his second wife was the widow of the late Lord Northcliffe, famed British editor & publisher, who died in 1922. Just before his death, it is rumored, Lord Northcliffe instructed his wife that, in case she remarried, his preference would be that she marry his intimate friend Sir Robert Arundell Hudson. This she did within a year...
...play starts back in slavery days, a few years before the Civil War had brought about the legal emancipation of the colored race. The central theme, in which the action of the whole play is centered with more than usual intensity, is built around the life of a mulatto--a champion of the negro cause who is doomed to increasing disappointment and failure because his aspirations and his pride are out of all proportion to his abilities and his environment. The blood of the old colonnel, his natural father, makes him unwilling to submit to the indignities attendant...
Arriving at the cemetary which surrounds Novo Devichi, the coffin was carried to the edge of the grave by Trotsky, Zinoviev, Radek, Kamenev, Rakovsky and an unspecified member of the Joffe family-all Oppositionists. Foreign Commissar Georg Tchitcherin, representing the Central Committee of the Communist Party, spoke first, paying an eloquent tribute to M. Joffe's services and ability as a diplomat. But the greatest of all the speeches was that of Leon Trotsky, the Communist outcast...
...rhinoceros and a golden-haired baboon-Frederick Beck Patterson, 35-year-old President of the National Cash Register Co., reached the U. S. last week tanned and a little thin, and told how he had shot them with camera and gun during five months big game hunting in Central and East Africa. When he ended he had a ton of animal skins and heads and 18,000 ft. of cinema films plus 400 still photographs (he was in the 15th Photographic Air Service Unit during the War). That was too much to lug with him. He shipped them...