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Murray felt bound to support Lewis in an issue as dear to labor. And after years of allegiance, there were emotional bonds that could not easily be sloughed off. But Murray also wanted to plump for national defense. He and the delegates who were in the same dilemma were embittered and perplexed...
...circle began in the '20s. Maxim Litvinoff, who had married a plump, middle-class Englishwoman, set out to end the isolation which the Bolshevist Revolution had imposed on Russia. He delighted and confounded Englishmen with his bluntness, his cunning, his tenacity. At the Disarmament Conference in 1927 he surprised everyone by demanding, of all things, disarmament. "Propaganda," the delegates muttered. "It is propaganda," agreed Litvinoff. "Propaganda for peace." His pet idea was security for Russia through nonaggression. He gave and got promises to and from most of Russia's neighbors not to aggress...
Only other candidate often mentioned is plump Labor Minister Ernest Bevin, who has got himself in Dutch with Labor by supporting the Army and Navy policy of taking skilled industrial workers for military service. Last week the Beaver, who wants more & more skilled women for a huge production program in the Midlands, approached open battle with Minister Bevin on the question of woman-power...
...There ain't agoing to be no core," said Tom Sawyer, but he was 80 years ahead of the times. The first coreless, seedless apples known to science were discovered only last year. Weighing a plump quarter-pound each, they grow on a freak tree in Mrs. Libbie Wilcox's backyard in Huntington Park, Calif...
Last week hundreds of Europeans marched to Nazi execution because they dared to revolt against the New Order. Some were young, as heroes are supposed to be. Some were not. Plump men of middle years sprawled on their blindfolded faces in front of bullet-pocked walls. Worn grey bodies hung by their corded necks in public squares...