Word: aug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third week went by, leaving the anthracite miners and operators no nearer to deciding whether mining is to continue after Aug. 31, when the present wage contract expires. The miners have asked a 10% wage increase; the operators say that wage costs must be reduced. Incidents of the week: ¶ The operators published, in Philadelphia and Manhattan newspapers, advertisements telling the public that there was no necessity for a hard coal strike, that they were willing to offer to continue operations after Aug. 31 and to arbitrate any difference which had not been settled by that time. The miners charged...
...much is a vote worth? "Not much," decided about half (some 25,000,000) of the U. S. citizens eligible to vote, who failed to vote (TIME, Nov. 24) in the election for President last fall. But on Aug. 4 Virginia is to hold her Democratic Primary for Governor- a hot-fought election between two state senators, Mapp and Byrd, hinging largely on questions of personal integrity. Last week three Virginian women were in Florence, Italy. One of them took train, hastened to Paris, got a ballot from the U. S. consul, voted by mail, and hastened back with...
Gloom. Gloom. Gloom. Ahead, rapidly drawing closer, was the spectre of an unparalleled industrial crisis. On Aug. 1 the coal miners would strike, unless a last-minute agreement were made. With the striking miners would be the transport workers and railwaymen, who decided not to handle any coal once the strike began. Numerous other workers would surely walk out in sympathy while, owing to a shortage of coal, many industries would be forced to shut down and discharge their employes. The Times struck the keynote of pessimism...
Argentina. Like the flash that precedes the thunder, the Prince of Wales' chauffeur arrived in Buenos Aires to study the capital preparatory to driving his royal master about it. The Prince is expected from Uruguay on Aug...
...women. You are talking rubbish when you are talking music. ..." The old woman sits down, begins to tap the floor with her long foot, thinking of Siegfried Wagner, sapless shoot of a strong tree, who went to the U. S. but failed to raise money for Bayreuth (TIME, Aug. 4, 1924); of the night King Ludwig of Bavaria drove alone up the black highroad to Bayreuth to pay tribute at the grave of the dead Wagner; of the multitude of famed musicians, soloists in their own right, who accept a bare living wage at Bayreuth to offer their...