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Vainly Witter Bynner pleaded with the gravediggers to bury his mother's body. At length, he and his friends deposited the casket on a shelf and Poet Bynner rushed to a telegraph office to appeal to President Roosevelt to do something about ''this affront to fundamental human rights." To the President and Labor Secretary Frances Perkins he wired that "there should be equitable Federal or State supervision over the status of cemetery employes, protecting them against injustice and also protecting the bereaved and unoffending citizen against a recurrence of such grievous indignity...
Although Tom Connally is supposed to belong to the group of Southern Senators who would like to weaken Franklin Roosevelt's Southern popularity by making him sign an anti-lynching bill, rarely is there a Southern Senator who does not feel bound to talk against the measure at length on the floor or who does not enjoy himself hugely doing...
...being permitted to "observe conditions" in Valencia, Socialist Baron found himself abruptly clapped into jail, managed to smuggle out news of his plight by means of a prearranged code. Last week international Socialist pressure secured Observer Baron's release and he arrived in Paris after traveling the length of Leftist Spain, keeping his eyes & ears open. Earlier in the year Socialist Baron had spent four months traveling freely all over Leftist Spain, thus last week had ample background to contrast conditions in the spring and today...
Principal changes were in the last act, which Shaw cut to a third of its length, almost completely rewrote. What made the London audience sit up was not the clatter of the Shavian blank verse but a sly passage whose political patness even the dullest Britisher could...
Essays which must be approximately 1000 words in length are to be judged by Robert E. Rogers '09, professor of English at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Winner of the contest will receive 5100, four runner-ups $25 each. Competition closes on December...