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* One of Britain's most famous university M.P.s, Independent A. P. Herbert of Oxford, will not seek another political office in the forthcoming election; he has decided to devote all his propaganda energies to a crusade against low-flying airplanes. * However, if a lunatic casts his vote during a...
Roy Jenkins, Attlee's official biographer, says: "By the end of 1907 he was a Socialist, in the very practical sense that he wished to devote his life to the improvement of working-class conditions."
For Rajendra Prasad, who, like Gandhi, gave up a law practice to devote his life to Indian freedom, the presidency was a reward for years of faithful service to the Congress party. One friend said of pacifist, Puritan Prasad: "He detests controversy as much as he loathes liquor." Prasad is...
Graham, had resigned after his appointment to the U.S. Senate depended on two things: 1) formal approval by the North Carolina trustees and 2) Harry Truman's consent to let his able, hard-working Army Secretary go back home. There was no doubt what Gordon Gray wanted to do...
Until he was 16, James Laughlin, heir to a slice of one of Pittsburgh's biggest steel fortunes,* hardly knew the difference between the avant-garde and the guard at a foundry gate. English Teacher Dudley Fitts soon changed all that. At Choate, in 1931, Teacher Fitts took spindling...