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...Hannington Chite, Cornell's flashy inside, was awarded a penalty kick with half a minute to go. Coach Bruce Munro was too nervous even to watch the attempt, but apparently Chite was even more jittery, for his kick went soaring far above the crossbar...
...chubby mechanic named Walter ("Wal") Hannington was so useful to the British Government as a highly-skilled armaments tooler in 1914 that he was exempted from active army duty. It would have saved His Majesty's Government a pack of trouble in the past 20 years if Wal had gone to France and stopped a German bullet...
...appointed for the march on the House of Commons, uniformed police and plainclothesmen from Scotland Yard quietly converged upon the Workers' Movement headquarters in Russell Square near the British Museum. The detectives entered the dingy headquarters building, burst in upon "Wal" Hannington who was talking with a newshawk. Unresisting, Hannington submitted to arrest for inciting a mutiny, was jailed without bail in Bow Street station...
...Hannington. In his little Bloomsbury office last week sat one Wal Hannington, organizer of the National Unemployed Workers' Movement, who claimed credit for fomenting these, the most serious British riots since 1921. Communist Wal Hannington, frank proponent of violence, is a hard-muscled, soft-spoken young man who dresses extremely neatly, wears tortoise shell glasses and serves tea to teatime visitors. Without hesitation he explained how some of last week's British riots were organized by his scouts (not Boy Scouts) scrawling directions on the sidewalks, how the N. U. W. M. fooled the police by starting false...
London police took Wal Hannington at his word, arrested him for "inciting demonstrations." Quietly a judge clapped him for six months into Wormwood Scrubbs Jail. Nervous, the London Press achieved a remarkable conspiracy of silence, omitted all mention of Communist Hannington...