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...other must succumb after the committee passes judgement at a hearing at 10 o'clock this morning. If the board refuses to accept the union's evidence that intimidations and coercion have been used to discourage membership in its organization, then the power of the international union is definitely broken...
...owns and operates the system with the Post Office as its sole customer. It is, with a two-mile stretch in Boston, the last survivor of similar lines that once operated busily in Philadelphia, St. Louis, Chicago. Last week it looked as if Manhattan's system might also succumb...
...Stones;" a tourist party of middle-aged Englishwomen - "with ankles lapping down over their shoes and a puglike expression of factitious enthusiasm combined with the determination to be in at the death, whoever or whatever is dying." Prone to laugh the world off in one breath, to succumb helplessly to it in the next, he characteristically concludes his final contribution to Letters from Iceland...
...largest crowds of the House season turned out to see the game. The Leverett eleven went into the game on the crest of a four game streak, during which time they had not even been scored upon, and the Rabbits did not succumb without a struggle...
Still the only U. S. citizen to come down with cholera in Shanghai was H. A. Ferguson of Buffalo. No cholera statistics were available from Chinese sections of Shanghai but in the French Concession alone there were 450 cases, with cholera-afflicted foreigners observed to succumb more rapidly than Chinese. Japanese authorities admitted 200 of their soldiers were down with cholera at Paoshan, and the Chicago Daily News's unsensational Reginald Sweetland cabled: "Swarms of cholera flies stream into homes, restaurants and offices, and [Shanghai] health officials feel that only a sudden change of weather with heavy showers...