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...third Indian leader, taut, be spectacled Puran Chandra Joshi, Secretary of the Indian Communist Party. Last week his party met in Bombay, with as much fiery speechmaking as Jinnah's Moslem League had displayed. "Cultural squads" reworded ageless folk tunes into and-Japanese songs. The Bombay sweeper-women gave a specialty dance. Characteristically Indian was one Red chant set to an old devotional tune: "Do not think that revolution means thirst for blood; it means love for a higher life...
When Parliament next reassembles, the dockers, garmentworkers and munition makers of Whitechapel, in London's squalid East End, will be represented in the House of Commons by Petty Officer Walter James Edwards, stoker in the Royal Navy's mine sweeper H.M.S. Speedwell...
...Tobruk, said Tobruk was worse. Reaching the docks just as an artillery shell blew up a building behind him, he boarded a tug, which soon took two or three direct shell hits amidships. He jumped overboard, swam around patches of blazing oil, cried out to a passing mine sweeper, was hauled aboard. Next day the mine sweeper was attacked and burned by Italian torpedo boats whose fire killed all the mine sweeper's gunners. Again Downes went overside, swam to a raft, from which he was rescued by a British torpedo plane and taken to Matr...
...given his first command, a mine-sweeper, the Lark, which was in the mine force at Honolulu. He captained the vessel until 1938 when he was transferred to the Bureau of Navigation in Boston...
...last ten years the growling comments and resonant tones of Radiorator Fletcher Wiley have become as familiar to the ears of Southern California housewives as the hiss of boiling water or the whir of the carpet sweeper. Five days a week he has soothed them with friendly advice about household problems, stormed angrily against frauds on the market, chatted lightly on a variety of subjects ranging from the history of cinnamon to modern marriage...