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...Much to their surprise President-elect Roosevelt received in his study three unkempt Communist leaders planning a "hunger march" to Washington, spent 45 minutes listening to their "demands." Among other things they wanted $100,000,000 in relief funds, use of State armories, free transportation to Washington in State trucks, a guarantee against police interference. Polite but firm. Governor Roosevelt granted them nothing. Dialog...
There are earnest, unkempt minor officials in Russia who can find a solution for anything. Russia's harvested area is 25% less than in 1931 according to figures of Aug. 1. Russian meat is so scarce that U. S. experts have been called in. A long and hungry winter grows nearer. In the face of this Soviet officials have discovered that the rabbit, one of the mainstays of the French bourgeois cuisine, is sadly neglected in Russia. Only 1,500,000 domestic rabbits exist in the Soviet Union. Last week rabbit propaganda was put in motion. A rabbit breeding...
Onetime chairman of the Yale chapter of the A. A. U. P. is Professor Yandell Henderson, able physiologist, expert on noxious gases, no fearer of publicity. Born in Kentucky 58 years ago, graduated from Yale in 1895, he is a somewhat unkempt savant, fond of his pipe, his British tweeds, his tennis. Professor Henderson developed gas-masks used by U. S. troops in the World War, has done much research in automobile exhaust gases, in the biochemistry of respiration and the physiology of circulation. Year ago he wrote an article for the Yale Alumni Weekly in dispraise of "industrializing education...
...with local history, with Springfield's Abraham Lincoln), he studied for the ministry at Hiram College (Ohio) then at the Chicago Art Institute and the New York School of Art. From 1905 to 1910 he did Y. M. C. A. work, lectured for the Anti-Saloon League. Rugged, unkempt, Poet Lindsay liked to vagabond about the land, trading verses for food and shelter. His rules for hoboes: Be "neat, deliberate, chaste and civil . . . preach the gospel of beauty," avoid cities, cash, baggage, railroads; ask for dinner at 10:45 a. m., supper, lodging and breakfast...
...artist in essentials, Inventor Edison was absentminded, often unkempt, given to laconic epigrams, careless about money. Having accepted "thirty thousand" for a new kind of transmitter bought by a British company, he was astonished at being paid in pounds, not dollars. He afterward received this letter from George Bernard Shaw: "I have the honor, sir, to inform you that you have now destroyed all the privacy in Great Britain...