Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Joe Axelrod's personnel department at the headquarters of his textile empire in Woonsocket, Rhode Island was still sorting and classifying the mail as it came in, and he was answering it as fast as he could. Said he: "Holy cats! I never dreamed a story could stir up such a response. One day you're quietly doing business in the same old way; the next you're a national figure with mail and telegrams pouring in from all over the hemisphere...
...Manhattan, the Justice Department's drive on alien Communists caught up with Russia-born Irving Potash, vice president of the C.I.O.'s International Fur & Leather Workers Union, member of the Communist Party's national committee. He was hustled off to Ellis Island, where he joined four others held as deportable Communists.* He also joined them in what they cried was a hunger strike against their being denied bail. At week's end all were free on bond, pending hearings. None looked the worse for his fast...
Winners of the awards are: David W. Allen '50, of Chappaqua, New York and Straus Hall; Thomas Fulton '51, of Long Island City, New York and Straus Hall; and Hugh G. Langley '48, of St. Catharines, Ontario and Leverett House...
...geographer. He wrote 14 books on the subject, was Woodrow Wilson's boundary expert at Versailles ("Tell me what's right," commanded Wilson, "and I'll fight for it"). His name was stamped on far-off places. There is a Bowman Bay, a Bowman Island, a Bowman glacier...
Other leaders in the final scoring were Manhattan, 18; Penn State, 13 1/4 Army, 12 1/4; Rhode Island State, 11 1/4; and Fordham...