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Further Developments: 1) Oswald Mosely, wealthy Socialist baronet and M. P., husband of Lady Cynthia, daughter of Lord Curzon, 2) "Emperor" Cooke, incendiary Coal-Laborite, took little part in the debate, but caused a sensation by remaining seated while the national anthem was played...
...editors, bankers, business men, labor leaders, missionaries and students of foreign affairs, met at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore at an International Conference on American relations with China. All week they listened to reports, weighed opinions, rumors, and theories about China and her relations with the U. S. Editor Oswald Garrison Villard of The Nation made impassioned speeches, as did many another. Before adjourning the Conference reversed its announced intention of not going on record with opinions about China; passed by a majority of 125 to 25 a resolution declaring that "Extraterritoriality should be abolished and tariff autonomy given...
...foresee in this principle, which places all importance upon training, the seeds of revolution in college methods. If young Oswald of the future would become a poet, he will enter college for a four-year treatment in courses especially chosen for the making of that peculiar product. At graduation the college will turn him loose on the world labeled "poet", with a written guarantee of so many sonnets an hour or money back. Such a plan has all the advantages of simplicity and certainty which present methods so signally lack...
...enforced this year will be officially explained and illustrated at a special game to be held in Hemenway Gymnasium on Friday night. Two teams from the University squad will play an informal game which will be interrupted by the coaches to explain different points. Coach Wachter and Mr. Oswald Tower, a prominent official, will probably make short explanatory speeches. After the game is over, the floor will be opened to a general symposium at which questions about the rules will be discussed by New England referees and coaches who are expected to be present...
...arrived. At the top of the famous staircase where the Tsar's Ambassadors used to receive the élite, stood M. and Mme. Rakovsky in front of a bust of Lenin. The first to arrive was H. G. Wells, followed by G. B. Shaw, Arthur Henderson, George Lansbury, Oswald Mosley, radical son-in-law of Marquis Curzon...