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Communist Darcy drew even louder cheers by brashly revealing that, after U. S. dock workers' contracts with their employers expire Sept. 20, the U. S. Communist Party expects to foment "strikes of unprecedented magnitude." Asserting that California Communist stevedores enjoy cordial relations with the Communist stevedores of The Netherlands and Australia. Mr. Darcy wisely observed: "The international contacts of the working class acquire special significance in connection with the danger of an imperialist war. It is essential to win great influence among the sailors and port workers engaged in loading and transporting military supplies." In their speeches Reds Browder...
...Congress shall adjourn on Tuesday, the 23rd day of July, 1935 . . . sine die." Up jumped Rules Chairman O'Connor, moved to table the resolution. Speaker Byrns called for those in favor of tabling the motion: a chorus of "Ayes." Then he called for those opposed: a much louder, heartier chorus of "Noes." "The Ayes appear to have it," opined Speaker Byrns. Representative Deen and Republican Leader Snell jumped to their feet demanding a division. Forced to stand up and be counted, Representatives were far less willing to vote their real preferences: in against adjournment, 48 for. Republican Snell promptly...
...plain Anglo-Saxon name was a handicap. He changed it to Eduardo di Giovanni, made his mark at La Scala before he was invited home. For more than a decade he has been the No. 1 North American-born tenor. Others may sing louder. But Johnson never errs as an artist, never fails to be an attractive, credible hero. As Roméo and Pelléas he has surpassed all his contemporaries...
Through the whole trinity of sciences runs the same distemper of bad morale. Cure this and most of the bad symptoms will vanish. Louder and louder grows the murmur that men are afraid to teach, driven away from the student by the intense pressure to produce tangible results from the laboratory. This pressure arises from the official belief that instructors will be intellectually dead at forty if they cannot drink deep of the fountain of perpetual youth that flows in the laboratory and the stacks. With some instructors this is true. But as a substitute for an intelligent personal estimate...
...years ago, bound for a meeting. Mrs. Tubman was sitting in a Manhattan subway train when a group of Communists got on, lustily sang the "Internationale." Patriot Tubman flushed red, white & blue, burst into "The Star-Spangled Banner." As the angry Communists sang louder, she pitched her voice higher & higher. More Communists got on. Finally Mrs. Tubman had to get off to attend her meeting...