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Williams impersonates workmen not only in this country, but in England, Scotland, and Wales. He has also passed as a common laborer in the lower districts of Germany. He believes that the gentleman scholar of the operations of economic laws falls to get many important factors visible only to those who feel the effects of the law. He has posed as a dock hand, a builder, and a miner. Recently he investigated Soviet Russia, but as an author, because of the danger of detection in case of a poor impersonation...
Practically every day that President Lowell is in Cambridge he makes a tour of inspection, sometimes alone, often accompanied by members of his staff. Although squads of about 240 and 100 workmen alternate each day on the work according to the particular work to be done, they will not be able to complete the chapel by Class Day unless extra workers are added...
...revolt against the clanking, clattering Machine Age last week were leading citizens of Montreal. Solemnly they marched 100 strong to a conveniently open space near the Canadian National Railway tracks. There workmen, spitting on their hands, took shovels and dug swiftly a medium-sized hole. In it was buried a toy steamshovel, symbol of the Machine...
...York last week to translate J. J. P. Oud's initials. Born in Holland in 1890. he became a disciple, at a distance, of Wisconsin's Frank Lloyd Wright. His own style developed slowly. In 1928 he published a number of Cubist projects for workmen's houses which won him an appointment as City Architect of Rotterdam. He is responsible for Rotterdam's Spangen and Tuschendijken municipal housing development and numerous private houses. Critics find him the most refined and conscientious of the workers in the International Style...
...Pope received a delegation of 1,500, representing more than 5,000 workmen employed by Vatican City, whose own population is 639. Pius XI said he was happy to give employment to so many, for unemployment means idleness, father of all sins...