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...State Chairman is Vice President Luigi Antonini of the C. I. O. International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, a voluble Italian who wears a Buster Brown tie and is also president of I. L. G. W. U.'s Manhattan dressmakers' Local 89, the largest (42,000 members) union local in the world. Treasurer is Andrew Armstrong, vice president of the A. F. of L.'s well-intrenched Printing Pressmen's Union. Treasurer Armstrong's money raising devices are a 10? annual levy per member on the affiliated unions, a 50? annual levy per member...
According to Zarya Vostoka, the largest building at Sukhum on the Black Sea, the State Theatre, is now the scene of a propa ganda trial of 47 accused which is filling columns in all Caucasian newsorgans. According to the State prosecutor, President Nestor Lakoba of the Abkhaz Soviet Republic originated the conspiracy to assassinate Joseph Stalin in 1933 and the would-be assassins were disgruntled agents of the Dictator's own dread secret police, the Gay-pay-oo. They opened fire too soon on a launch carrying Stalin across Pitsunda Bay and it was able to veer away from...
Pacifiers in the form of $2,670,000 worth of military airplanes are to be bought in the U. S. by Turkey, which last week was the largest applicant in October for licenses from the State Department to acquire U. S. munitions. The Department announced that it contemplates negotiating a reciprocal trade treaty with Turkey, whose trade with the U. S. nearly doubled in the past eight months to reach...
...these two charmingly mad Russians, therefore, there must be combined with the resourcefulness of living on no income, the fortitude to leave untouched the largest account in the Bank of France...
Despite the stiffening of standards in quartet trials last week, this year's Glee Club is the largest in history, it was announced yesterday. Although 38 men were dropped as compared to 20 last year, the present membership exceeds that...