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...Mason, an Elk, an Odd Fellow, a Baptist, a Democrat. For over ten years he has been Secretary-Treasurer of the United Mine Workers. He is quiet and rather retiring. His policy is nearer to that of Mr. Gompers than is that of Mr. Woll, Mr. Gompers' own protÉgÉ. He does not favor a third party or labor party. He has been active against communist propaganda and the extreme radicals in the labor movement. He has leaned to the progressive group in promotion of a Workers' Educational Bureau and in support of Government ownership...
Increase of about 2c. per package for each zone, greatest increases in the nearer zones...
...left to forward his "highest purpose," empire-building. One bequest designated that 176 selected scholars from the colonies and the U. S., and 5 from Germany should attend Oxford for three years each. Colonials and Americans were to receive £300 apiece per annum; the Germans, being nearer England, would get £250 each. Rhodes included the Americans because he believed there was an advantage to mankind in the union of English speaking peoples, to be gained "without . . . withdrawing them or their sympathies from the land of their adoption or birth...
...very much interested in your article on Peter Veregin, in your Nov. 17 issue, Page 17. To me, this is a positive proof of the authenticity and correctness of your news, as your article on the death of Peter Veregin was more interesting, contained more facts and was nearer correct in detail than any of the newspapers right here in Winnipeg. Thought you might be interested in this fact...
High winds rushed through the heavens where Illinois waited on her own field for Iowa. When Iowa came, Red Grange rushed like the winds, sweeping his fellows nearer to the Big Ten championship. Though keenly watched by hawk-eyed Iowa ends, Grange scored two touchdowns in the first period, arranged for a third, threw two passes that gained 86 yards. For Iowa, Quarterback Parkin, of Yale Bowl fame (1922), played stiff breeze to Grange's hurricane. Score: Illinois 36, Iowa...