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Said to be the largest unincorporated town in the U. S., Weirton, W. Va., population 16,000, lies in a fold of the hills about 40 mi. west of Pittsburgh. Its arterial main street bisects the dingy rambling mills of Weirton Steel Co. On narrower streets that wind up the steep hills, Weirton's workers live in frame houses, built against the hillside. Two miles outside Weirton, in dramatic proximity to the inevitable squalor of U. S. industrial life, stands "The Lodge," the comfortable, greystone mansion of Weirton's founder, Ernest Tener Weir, its most conspicuous feature...
When Governor McNutt, forbidden by Indiana's Constitution to succeed himself, went to the Philippines last spring, he left behind him one of the most formidable State political machines in the U. S. Main significance of Senator Minton's sudden McNutt-for-President boom last week was to suggest not only that Commissioner McNutt was still running his machine but that the machine was in good repair. Last month Commissioner McNutt's "administrative assistant" and general factotum, 33-year-old Wayne Coy, flew from Manila to the U. S. A slim, energetic young man, whose eyebrow mustache...
...aboard. Some 13,000 landed at various points near Woosung at the junction of the Whangpoo and Yangtze north of Shanghai; the rest, 42,000, stayed aboard waiting for an all-clear signal, while Japanese men-of-war made demonstrations along the shore. When the Japanese made their main landing in force, the first 700 men ashore, led by 70 picked troops who formed a shirodasukitai ("White Band of Death"), swept the first Chinese aside, pushed on towards what they thought was the second defense line of the Chinese. As soon as they reached it, hidden mines were exploded...
...where 400 delegates of the American Federation of Teachers were convened last week, was, once more, whether the A. F. of T. would continue its longtime affiliation with the American Federation of Labor or switch over to the C. I. O. The C. I. O. partisans are, in the main, labor idealists. The antiC. I. O. faction is opposed to the idea of industrial unionization, which would lump them together with janitors, waitresses, cooks, furnacemen, everyone else who worked around a school. There were plenty of hot words on both sides. Potent pleader...
...main steps of the building. Before we go on with our tour of the Yard, note please on the right Emerson Hall, named after Ralph Waldo Emerson. Here many famous philosophers have lectured as Harvard professors, including, among others. Royce, James, Palmer, and Santayana...