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Three factions divided the Left Wing of U. S. politics. Biggest and strongest of the three was the Left's Left headed by Norman Thomas, twice Socialist nominee for President. This faction two years ago, after a bitter struggle, got the party to adopt a radical platform including "mass resistance" to war, last year agreed to a "united front" with Communists in such specific matters as May Day parades, demonstrations against Fascism and support of the unemployed. The Left's Left went to Cleveland last week already in control of the party's National Executive Committee...
...Twice a year, at the meetings of the American Chemical Society the Association holds luncheon gatherings at which a member of the Faculty explains the changes that have taken place in the department here. Beyond that a few special meetings are held in Cambridge from time to time...
Captain Maguire's team, which showed marked return to form in defeating Pennsylvania twice Saturday, has mathematically ensured itself of at least a first place tie in the Eastern Intercollegiate League. With three games left to play the Crimson must lose all to equal the present records of Dartmouth and Yale, credited with four loses in twelve scheduled starts...
Died. Lennington ("Len") Small, 73, twice Governor of Illinois; after a bladder operation; in Kankakee, Ill. During his first (1921-25) term he was tried for pocketing the interest accruing to surplus State money, was sensationally acquitted and reelected for another term (1925-29) with the loyal support of the State's countryfolk who were grateful for Small's hard roads program. In Illinois' last primary he once more sought the gubernatorial nomination, was defeated by Lawyer Charles Wayland Brooks (TIME, April...
Cork. The U. S. imports virtually all its cork, though the cork oak thrives in California, where it grows about twice as fast as it does around the Mediterranean. What has deterred Californians from boosting cork is the fact that the bark is not stripped from the cork oak for commercial purposes until the tree is 35 years old. San Francisco's Emory R. Smith said last week that, when he was faculty head of Stanford University's Agricultural Research School, he tried to persuade Founder Leland Stanford to plant 1,000 acres of his grant to cork...