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George Baker drubbed Yale's Jeff Rosen, 12-4, in a wild match at 142. He accumulated a ten-point lead before allowing a Yale reverse in the closing seconds. Harvard's Dan Blakinger rapped Bill Gomper, 17-5, to boost his season record...
Three years ago Samuel Gompers journeyed to the American Federation of Labor convention at Portland, Ore. (TIME, Oct. 1, 1923, et seq.). His little cloth bunny was his mascot, a raggedy image of Uncle Remus' Br'er Rabbit whose nimble wits were so like Gomper's own. At that convention he was jubilant, declared: "On my honor as a man and as an adopted citizen of the United States,* with all sympathy for other people in their struggles toward realization of an ideal of freedom, I declare that I believe the Republic of the United States...
True in a measure, no doubt; but note Mr. Gomper's method of attack. "Here is Hearst,' he writes, "with the colossal effrontery that 'international bankers' are responsible for the opposition of the United States to Soviet Russia. What better camouflage or smoke-screen for the operations of those international bankers and concession hunters to secure recognition? What more effective appeal to the American masses who have no love for high finance...
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