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...affiliation was brought about by dissatisfaction among some of the members with the club's inactivity and the officials, the majority of whom approved the junction, hope that it will become an active organization, such as was impossible under an indefinite policy. Now, by joining the National Student League, the club adopts the tenets of that organization, which call for an active support of labor movements by going on picket lines, taking part in labor demonstrations, upholding the side of the working class in "the present-day class struggle" and to popularize the achievements of the Soviet Union by working...
...accident. Last week within a few hours of each other two famed trains were in mishaps. At Weverton, Md. the Baltimore & Ohio's eastbound Capitol Limited, going 40 m.p.h., jumped the track when a wheel of the tank-tender broke out of line. None was injured. At Princeton Junction, N. J. the Pennsylvania's westbound Red Arrow sloughed across three tracks at 45 m. p. h. when the locomotive's water scoop failed to rise properly from the track trough. Injured...
...bequest of $4,000,000 given to the University last May by George Artemas Ward, great grandson of the Revolutionary general. Leonard Crunell, Chicago sculptor, has been commissioned to design and execute a statue of the first Artemas Ward to be placed in a new circle at the junction of Massachusetts and Nebraska Avenues in Washington, D.C. The terms of the bequest provide that after the University has fittingly honored the great general by erecting memorials, and maintaining the old Ward-homestead which is located in Shrewsbury, where the general lived and died, the remaining money is to be used...
...timber, yellow pine in Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, hard wood in Mississippi, Douglas Fir in Washington, white pine in California. The $108,000,000 assets further include thousands of acres of farm land, nine sawmills, 104 lumberyards, 292 miles of railroad, and the entire town of Longview, Wash. at the junction of the Columbia & Cowlitz rivers. With its bank, hotel, motion picture house, fire department, "Y," docks, tennis courts, schools, it is a model, moral settlement. Paternal & religious, Robert Alexander Long delights in the title of Founder. "Men in business today need many friends," is one of his maxims...
Meanwhile, besides raiding Tsingtao (see below) Japan continued to fight in Manchuria. For once Chinese made serious resistance. A ragged volunteer force of about 5,000 men rose out of the frozen plains, captured the Japan-held railway junction of Tahushan. killed 200 men, then rubbed out a little Japanese detachment at Chinsi. It was a short triumph. Japanese reinforcements rolled up from Mukden, wreaked swift, bloody vengeance...