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...lumbering scarlet omnibus. With one horse streaming blood, the coach careened wildly up Park Lane at a dead run. White-faced but resolute, Sir George Sidney Clive, D. S. 0. bounced about. There was a second collision near the corner by the Marble Arch with an evil-smelling sweeper's cart, wrenching a wheel off the coach. Shaken but uninjured the Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps descended from his rehearsal...
What would be of more value to the college than a motorized snow-sweeper or an open-air parking space at $6.00 per month would be a pamphlet giving a fairly detailed, complete and specific listing of the reading covered in the course, and of the method of approach. Lest the faculty be too alarmed by fears of regimentation, let it be said that this list need not be in the nature of a promise nor even of a threat which their consciences or University Hall would drive them to abide by. To be sure, some courses, such as History...
...asked, and up the chimney you go. Emerging sooty but elated you wash up, present yourself at the Lord Chamberlain's office and state the facts. If the Lord Chamberlain pleases he may appoint you, as he has appointed G. J. Kite, "By Royal Warrant Chimney Sweeper to His Majesty the King...
Generalissimo of what may become the No. 1 strike in U. S. history was Francis Joseph Gorman. Thirty-one years ago, aged 13, young Francis arrived in the U. S. from his native Bradford, in Yorkshire. In Providence, R. I. he got a job as a sweeper in the Atlantic Mills. When he was 20 he joined his first union. Since then he has been more interested in the manufacture of labor solidarity than of textiles. In 1928 he was elected vice president of United Textile Workers, the job he still holds. After Thomas F. MacMahon, the Union...
...superintendent of an Atlanta pencil factory. In April 1913, a 14-year-old worker named Mary Phagan was found violently murdered in the factory's basement. Two days later Frank was arrested for the crime, tried and convicted largely on the testimony of a Negro employed as a sweeper in the factory. New York City Jews rushed to Frank's defense, raised funds to appeal his case in vain to the U. S. Supreme Court, charged Georgia with "railroading" him. This outside interest caused Georgians to lust for Frank's blood, guilty or innocent. Racial and sectional...