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April 24, 1927

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AUSTRIAN ELECTIONS VITAL TO SOCIALISM; Polling Today May Determine Fate of Europe's Marxists Outside of Russia. SEIPEL'S POWER AT STAKE Vienna's Priest-Statesman Seeks to Keep Control -- Jeritza Is Acclaimed Anew. AUSTRIAN ELECTIONS VITAL TO SOCIALISM

By Navarre Atkinson.copyright, 1927, By the New York Times Company.special Cable To the New York Times.by Navarre Atkinson

Austrian election campaign

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WHY CALL IT THE LAMBS?

By Unknown Author

THIS being the season of the year when the members of The Lambs are due to disport in public in aid of the apparently ever-needy treasury of that organization -- specifically, the annual Lambs Gambol will take place tonight at the Metropolitan Opera House -- there has bobbed up in certain quarters a considerable curiosity as to how the Lambs ever got started, anyhow.

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Bold and Manly Declaration."

By BISHOP RICHARD J. COOKE, Methodist Episcopal Church

ATHENS, Tenn., April 23. -- Responding to your telegram with respect to the eligibility of any one to the office of President of the United States, I have this only to say:

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SHAW MAKES MANKIND HIS HEIR; The Sage of Adelphi Terrace Explains to a Visitor His Crowning Achievement, a Gospel of Socialism That He Will Bequeath to Humanity -- Too Late, He Says, for Him to See America

By P.w. Wilson

Feature article by P W Wilson, Shaw Makes Mankind His Heir, por

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Secretary Kellogg Retains 72-Year-Old Negro Messenger

By Special to The New York Times

Retains E A Savoy, 72-yr-old negro

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Notable Births

1927Josy Barthel, Luxembourgish runner and politician, Luxembourgish Minister for Energy (died 1992)^[†]

Joseph "Josy" Barthel was a Luxembourgish athlete and politician. He was the surprise winner of the Men's 1500 metres at the 1952 Summer Olympics, and the only athlete representing Luxembourg to have won a gold medal at the Olympics. Besides athletics, Barthel also led successful careers in both chemistry and politics.