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...experience with a swing around the world "to observe the different methods of government" in colonial areas. Then, at 30, he was ready for politics. In 1932, he ran for the Massachusetts state legislature and won. Four years later after putting through 20 labor bills (mostly on workmen's compensation), the youthful Lodge had a reputation. He was ready for a try at the U.S. Senate...
Unfortunately for the colonel, workmen's tongues began wagging in Leeds, where 28,000 people were waiting for permits to build homes and where factories are often short of electricity. Their complaints about Scarcroft's blazing floodlights, its elaborate wrought-iron gateway and its superb kitchen reached the receptive ears of Tory Donald Kaberry, M.P. Kaberry denounced Lapper and his board in the House of Commons as "little tsars of the government's creation [who] build their Kremlins . . . and shrink from the wrath of public opinion." The Attorney General ordered an investigation...
...relatives pleading for more money. Mothers, grandfathers or sons wrote that new taxes had been assessed on them, or that they had been fined for crimes against the Communist regime. A 57-year-old woman wrote her son in San Francisco that she had been charged with underpaying the workmen who had built her house 25 years before...
Raymond H. Smith [TIME Letters, Oct. 15] wants to know how others feel about Eisenhower. I feel that while Taft has better preparation for the presidency, he cannot be elected because workmen still pay some attention to the distortions and calumnies heaped upon him by the leaders of labor rackets...
...Gold!" cried the grizzled German archeologist, clutching the arm of his beautiful young Greek wife. They stared down into the excavation. "Quick!" he whispered. "Send the men home at once . . . Tell them anything you want." A few minutes later the unsuspecting workmen were gone, and Heinrich Schliemann, a knife in his hand and a frenzy in his head, was digging gold bangles and diadems out of the foundations of Homeric Troy. Priam's treasure! The words roared in his ears. Staggering up, Schliemann looped a necklace 3,000 years old around the neck of his 20-year-old wife...