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There is a considerable body of young people who are not only unable to go to college but are also jobless. To these went last week an invitation from Commonwealth College (Mena, Ark.), militant labor institution. Chief point: tuition at Commonwealth for nine months costs $120, less per month than the cost of living at home. There are no other expenses. Said Lucien Koch, Commonwealth's director: "Young people to whom the Depression is a reality, who have lost their jobs and are not sure where the next meal is coming from, are the ones most likely to succeed...
...Youngest is Lucien Koch, 24, of Commonwealth College (for workers, at Mena...
...Basshe (Earth), Author Walter Stanley Campbell (pseudonym Stanley Vestal), Poets Hart Crane and Genevieve Taggard, Painters Marsden Hartley and Ione Robinson, Sculptor Harold Cash (his second grant), Penologist Joseph Fulling Fishman, Composer Henry Dixon Cowell, Architect Cecil Clair Briggs,* Economist Herbert Heaton, Director William Edward Zeuch of Commonwealth College (Mena, Ark.), many a college professor, and ten Mexican, Chilean and Argentine scholars...
Citizen Barlow claims that in 1919 he bought swamp acres in what is now the business centre of Havana, developed them with streets, sewers, watermains; that one Pedro Gomez Mena. in connivance with then President Zayas of Cuba, seized the land, formed Gomez Mena Land Co.; that Cuban courts had upheld the Barlow titles; that officers of the land company as Cuban Congressmen were immune to arrest and prosecution; that therefore the court orders against them could not be executed...
Ambassador Guggenheim had induced Gomez Mena Land Co. to arbitrate with Citizen Barlow. Citizen Barlow was to choose one Cuban arbitrator. The land company was to choose another from a group of three to be selected by John William Davis, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain. A third was to be selected by the other two or by the World Court if they failed to agree...