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...London, is also a champion cook, whose fame has spread all over Provence, his inn is the stopping place for most of the pilots who are training for record-breaking flights, and his walls are a gallery of photographs of the first flyers of France. Here have stayed Rossi, Codos, Bossoutrot, Doret, Mermoz, Le Brix, the late lamented Boucher, all the bright company of those whose deeds have kept France in the van of aviation; and here, too, Delmotte, chunky, red-faced, and carefree, together with his dog, lived while attempting to break the record over the measured kilometer, with...
John T. McLoughlin '36, New York City; John J. McCue, Jr. '36, W. Orange, N. J.; Richard M. Powell '35, Haddonfield, N. J.; Horace B. B. Robinson ocC, Montclair, N. J.; Benson Rosenberg '37, Elizabeth, N. J.; Vincent J. Rossi '37, Utica, N. Y; Robert D. Sard '35, New York City; Maurice Sapienza '37, Irvington, N. J.; Francis A. Wendell '37, New York City; John R. Westervelt '37, Maplewood, N. J.; Donald T. Wood '37, New York City; William W. Young '37, Patchogue...
...Mayor Rossi thereupon swore in 500 more police, called for 2,000 more militiamen. By Monday the entire National Guard of California was under arms, and 5,000 guardsmen were in San Francisco...
...soldiers no longer controlled San Francisco, nor the police, nor Mayor Rossi, nor the citizens, nor the newspapers. The man who had a half-Nelson on San Francisco was an Australian Communist named Harry Bridges. Chairman of the joint committee of maritime workers and chairman of the strike committee, he had organized the bloody, nine-week-old longshoremen's strike which had finally detonated the general strike. Organizing his own body of strike police, Chairman Bridges declared against violence, prepared to set up a food distribution system from central markets whither householders might go afoot. "If the people...
...arouse emotion: should Labor impose its will or should it knuckle down? San Francisco Labor chose its course, to make the public and back of the public the State and back of the State the employers bow to its power. When the State in the person of Mayor Rossi in San Francisco, of Governor Merriam in Sacramento and, remote in the Pacific, of President Roosevelt, took up the challenge, the stage was set for social...