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...section of the pyramid of educational society had been tried and found wanting-beer. -The Dartmouth...
Vastly overshadowing Brotherhoods, Communists and Wobblies stands the great pyramid of the American Federation of Labor. At the base of the pyramid is a membership of 2,889,550 represented by 29,574 local unions, 804 city centrals, 49 State branches, 4 departments. Almost at the top of the pyramid is the all-powerful Executive Council: secretary, treasurer, eight vice presidents. On top of the pyramid sits President William Green. Although all other labor organizations rush to deny it, his voice, when it does speak, is the Voice of U. S. Labor...
Near the convention stood the base of what Coin Harvey hopes some day will be his "pyramid to posterity"-an 85-ft. shaft above a hollow concrete block. Inside this chamber he proposes to deposit and seal up records and relics of the 20th Century, its literature and laws, its homely articles, its great machinery in miniature, to be opened aeons hence by archeologists searching for traces of a civilization which, Philosopher Harvey fears, will soon be lost...
...Paris." This statement, ludicrous as a patent medicine label, happens to be almost true. This week the French Empire stands in Paris. As an example of what has been amazingly done, the Angkor Vat (Temple of Angkor), probably the most intricate wonder of the Far East, a vast pyramid of architecture covering three and a half acres and embellished with miles of carved figures, has been reproduced in Paris, not as a model but full size, at a cost...
...thing made this year's birthday parade different from all others. For the first time Russians were able to see the fane of Communism, the final, stone tomb of Nikolai Lenin. For years the "Communist saint" rested in a glass case under a truncated pyramid of weathered oak while state architects argued what form the permanent tomb should take...