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...U.W.F. movement started in a bathtub, roughly speaking, some seven years ago. Harris Wofford, a student at an eastern high-school, heard Clarence Streit (author of "Union Now") over the radio, while bathing. Inspired by Streit's plea for a supra-national government, Wofford leaped out of the tub and proceeded to form an organization known as the Student Federalists. But it wasn't until after the San Francisco Conference in 1945 that the campaign for One World began to give off steam...

Author: By David E. Lillenthal jr., | Title: Brass Tacks | 3/11/1949 | See Source »

...ceiling and the one cold water spigot that had previously passed for a gymnasium. "Chemical laboratory bottles upstairs juggled dangerously when anything more violent than Swedish movements was done," a reminiscence in the 1900 Yearbook reads. One member of the class of 1897 donated a large tin tub from home for the girls to bathe in after exercising...

Author: By Deborah Labenow, | Title: Annex Gymnasium Marks 50th Year As Basketball, Bowling Top Sports | 3/10/1949 | See Source »

...Communist, and yowled that MacArthur was infringing on freedom of the press-TIME, March u, 1946. Rubin started working for the Worker as soon as he was discharged.) A little farther away from the field of political rowdydow, Sportwriter Bill Mardo only occasionally thumps the Communist tub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The House on Twelfth Street | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

Propped up in his antique fourposter, with a monocle screwed in his eye, the duke blasts through the open bedroom window at a target on the other side of the patio. After the fusillade, the duke lays down his pistol, ducks into an ice-cold tub. After he has worked himself into his silver-mounted charro (cowboy) outfit, he starts for church on the run, shadow-boxing vigorously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: The Old Guard | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

WEST VIRGINIA. Republican Chapman Revercomb had surprised even himself in 1942 by edging out demagogic, 73-year-old Matt Neely, West Virginia's one-man office-holding machine (five times Congressman, thrice Senator, once governor). This time there was less likely to be a surprise. Tub-thumping Matt Neely reminded his good friends the miners of Revercomb's Taft-Hartley vote, reminded Jews and Catholics that Revercomb had refused Tom Dewey's personal plea to broaden provisions of the D.P. bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: Battle for the Senate | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

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