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...hoped would prevent the bloodshed of 1914-18, the same delegates last week proposed "in any imperialist war we call upon President Green to immediately call a general strike of all workers affiliated with the A. F. of L." But all they got out of William Green was a pious phrase: "Under no circumstances whatever must we be drawn into this European...
Month ago the Depression-made hair-shirt of popular disgust formerly worn in North America by Herbert Hoover was transferred to Canada's rich and pious Conservative Premier Richard Bedford Bennett, an able and aggressive businessman who neither drinks nor smokes but has been seen by intimates to extract furtively from the bottom drawer of his desk a chocolate cream. In desperation good Mr. Bennett attempted briefly to ape President Roosevelt's New Deal (TIME. Jan. 14) but this was dead in Canada last week and all but forgotten. From the first, Canada's alert voters sensed...
Footballers in colleges of the Western ("Big Ten'') Conference are allowed to nestle on State payrolls if they work for their salaries. Just how hard Ohio State athletes work for their stipends was debatable. Governor Davey followed up his blast with a pious assurance that all were usefully employed. But Ohioans recalled that after Ohio State's great Negro sprinter, Jesse Owens, broke three world records, the House of Representatives quietly changed his status from page to honorary page at $3 per day in session...
...caused an unexpected rise in Erie shares. Drew's fall thereafter was rapid. In 1876 he was bankrupt, his liabilities exceeding $1,000,000. Old, ignorant and despised, Daniel Drew spent his last years dependent on his son. But he had one consolation-religion. He was a pious Methodist whom Wall Street called "Deacon Dan." In the days of his wealth he endowed Drew Theological Seminary (now University) at Madison, N. J. He also contributed heavily to a young ladies' seminary and three churches near his birthplace-Brewster Methodist Episcopal Church, Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, Daniel Drew Methodist...
...Yankee ne'er-do-wells," young Rounsevell was raised in upState New York, learned to chew tobacco before he was 12. took to sin early. (The skids to Hell were well greased and I slid down the incline as fast as any boy in his teens ever did.) His pious father could not abide him. (I was the first Rounsevell ever to drink, curse and play cards.} From an Irish grandfather he acquired "a sense of humor, a taste for good liquor, a go-to-hell attitude." At 13 he left home, became in turn a farmhand, livery stableboy. book...