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Died. Mustafa Kamal Atatürk. 59, President and one-man top of modern Turkey; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Istanbul...
...dues to the National Union of Railwaymen. Because he failed to pay up, the union dropped him. Because he was no longer a union man, to porters, pitchers, ticket collectors, out-goods and cartage men everywhere he traveled he was a sort of hot supercargo, a one-man affront to the cherished principle of "complete membership" (closed shop). At Euston and St. Pancras 800 men stopped work. To Camden Town Depot, to the Smithfield Markets the stoppage spread. Soon 4,000 workers were clamoring for Gwilliams' buttons...
Month ago Owner Rooney released two of his ablest backs. Last fortnight he sold three others. He even peddled the Whizzer but there were no buyers. Last week, looking like a one-man team, the Pirates played the Green Bay Packers, were slaughtered, 20-to-0. Whizzer White, who had carried the ball 81 times in six previous games (nearly twice as many as any other player in the league), had apparently only begun to work...
Died. John Joseph Boylan, 70, Tammanyite, for 16 years U. S. Representative of the docks, warehouses, clothing factories, theatrical lodging houses on the west side of midtown Manhattan; who conducted an unsuccessful one-man campaign to brighten the Congressional Record by headlines, cartoons and comic strips; after long illness; in Manhattan...
...since the legendary days of Barry Wood has the Crimson fielded a one-man team, or even a team with one or two possibilities for such gridiron dreamdom as all-American laurels. Captain Bob Green's eleven is another of these teams...