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...Japanese superstition holds that toads wield a dangerous hypnotic magnetism over humans, and Japanese say that like a toad Toyama pulls and pushes young men into these plots and assassinations. Born in a frenzy-inclined community on Kyushu Island, he was raised in the "school of heroes" of Miss Takaba, a unique female warrior who wore two swords and swung two hot little fists. In his youth Toyama evaded and broke successive apprentice ships, embarked on a self-righteous outlawry something like Robin Hood's, and about 1894 established the foundations of the Black Dragon Society...
...United States enters the war Sidney Hillman will wield the power, according to the Socialist candidate, which "would be a major catastrophe, for Hillman is as complete a Machiavelli as ever walked the earth." Roosevelt if elected, may very well carry labor along with him into a dictatorship. it was forecast, and in this Hillman was described as probably a potent helper...
...paunchy little man stood quietly behind the marble rostrum, uneasy in his unaccustomed formal clothes, his shrewd, warm eyes downcast, his bald head shining dully in the soft glow from the vast skylight. Inches from his right hand was the gavel, the symbol of the authority he would now wield as Speaker of the House, until death or defeat of the Democrats. Sam Rayburn, 58, of Bonham, Tex., bachelor, shorthorn breeder, and for seven years a moderator of the New Deal, was waiting to speak his piece...
When critics point to the many racketeers who hold office in A. F. of L. unions, William Green cries that he is being crucified. His alibi: that the Federation lacks disciplinary power over its autonomous international unions, can wield the big stick only over the Federal unions directly affiliated with it. Last week Mr. Green had a chance to use his stick...
...additional dual meets with Princeton and Cornell in the spring. And the sacrifice by a few individual performers whom the HAA has been sending to Madison Square Garden at considerable expense cannot be avoided. If Harvard is to make the most of its coach and its material, it must wield the knife with unflinching decision now, in the hope that it may restore the health and self-respect of the Crimson track team in the future...