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Last week, for the 27th time, Death came to a Moffat Tunnel workman. King F. Weston and E. J. Shepard were carrying a burned-out electric motor when Mr. Weston leaned against an open switch, crumpled, died. Mr. Shepard slipped, crushed his leg beneath the motor...
...were the Shoguns or Tycoons ("High Princes") intimidated back into contact with the world. Not until two years later did Townsend Harris, as U. S. Consul General, raise at Kakisaki, near Shimoda, the first consular flag ever unfurled in Japan. Despatches told last week that many a parchment skinned workman is chipping with light mallet and fine chisel at a granite memorial to be unveiled on completion at the spot where Mr. Harris raised his standard...
...strongest Ministry assembled in Poland since the re-establishment of Polish independence [1918].- This enthusiasm was traceable in some degree to the satisfaction of wealthy newspaper owners at seeing in the Cabinet these potent monarchist landowners MM. Nieza- vytowski and Meysztowicz. Paradoxically enough the Socialist news- paper Robotnik (the Workman) founded by Pilsudski a decade ago was loud in condemning him last week for taking the decisive step at which he has balked so long. Foreign observers unanimously expressed the hope that Marshal Pilsudski had definitely mastered the tendency to vacillating irresolution which has caused the Polish Government to teeter...
...bout. Lightweight. When Benjamin Leonard, nonpareil of lightweights, retired from the ring at the top of his hour, the successor to his crown proved ultimately to be Rocky Kansas, of Buffalo. This Kansas, whose real name was left behind in some alley of his white boyhood, is a scarred workman, 35 years old, who has devoted approximately two-thirds of his life to the trade of fistic war. He is not beau tiful. He is not agile. He is not even particularly strong, but long hours spent in the practice of his profession have given this virtue: he is hard...
Educated by his mother and at the University of Kharkov, Russia, he developed Socialistic leanings, and finally incurred the suspicion of the Tsaral police, who secured his exile to Siberia (1887-92). In 1894 he and his first wife began secretly to publish Robotnik (The Workman), a Socialist propaganda organ, which was discovered by the Tsaral police in 1904, resulting in Pilsudski's imprisonment...