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...American Federation of Teachers is a constituent union of the American Federation of Labor and is the only organization of teachers in the country working in cooperation with the Labor movement. It forms a link between the professional workers in schools and colleges and manuel workers. Since its organization last year the Cambridge branch has grown to include a member ship...
During the week Madrid denials made no impression on Argentine authorities who affirmed at Buenos Aires that the President of Spain, corpulent regular Republican Manuel Azaña was about to seek refuge in the Argentine Embassy. They said he had appealed to have the Argentine cruiser Veinticinco de Mayo stand by at the Spanish port of Alicante, ready to rescue the President, his pretty young wife and other prominent Republicans from the expected fury of Madrid's proletariat. Dressed always in proletarian blue overalls, Premier Largo Caballero was said to be holding President Azaña virtually...
...been improved but the U. S. Polo Association well knew that no such doings were permissible. Faster turf and the new U. S. mounts made the second game at Meadow Brook last week less one-sided but the upshot was the same. When it was over, 8-to-4, Manuel Andrada, Andres Gazzotti, Luis Duggan and Roberto Cavanagh were the first poloists who had beaten the U. S. in an international series since England...
...Argentina, where cattle raising is the national industry, polo is the national sport. The majority of the game's good players are not socialites as they are in the U. S., but ganchos (cowboys). Manuel Andrada, the Babe Ruth of Argentina, is a gaucho who has been playing high-goal polo for 30 years. Gazzotti, South America's No. 1 player, is a middle-class businessman. Luis Duggan and Roberto Cavanagh are third-generation, European-schooled sons of rich Irish-Argentinian ranching families. Cavanagh, at 20, is currently considered the most promising poloist in the world...
This glorious sensation of sudden riches could not help being felt in high places. Fortnight ago, President Manuel Quezon with more moderation than most of his compatriots put his blessing on the boom: "In their mines the Philippines have a storage of great wealth. If reports of the Bureau of Science are justified I believe that our country is one of the richest in the world...