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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...month's pay. Bit by bit, spreading the work, he pared his month to 120 hours. When skilled union men on work relief in New York City struck for "prevailing" (i.e. union) wages, Administrator Hopkins brought them sharply to heel by ordering them barred from home relief (TIME, Aug. 19). Last month, under pressure from American Federation of Labor as well as from the necessity to make more jobs, he permitted New York City's WPAdministrator to cut skilled workmen's hours in half, leave their pay the same, thus giving them approximately union wages...
...think results would be better if the krone were devalued not merely down to but below the pound. Last summer they marched in force on King Christian X's palace to demand that Premier Stauning make the krone worth 30 to the pound instead of 22 (TIME, Aug. 12). Last week in Copenhagen the Danish Parliament assembled and such super-devaluation was Denmark's rabble-rousing issue. Many a smart farmer was trying to give this super-devaluation a push by illegally holding on to foreign exchange paid for his exports, thus tending to create a sterling shortage...
...practical than fighting Japan, the Nanking Government has had to have a Premier whom Japanese would consider pro-Japanese, this remarkable Chinese being Mr. Wang Ching- wei. When he himself could no longer stomach his sickening role and resigned "because of my poor health, which is very real" (TIME, Aug. 26), the Japanese Government applied pressure which forced Generalissimo Chiang to oblige Mr. Wang to get well overnight and carry on as Premier. "Japan Is Fully Prepared." Premier Wang and his Cabinet play their roles as a coop full of apparently chicken- hearted Chinese statesmen who have actually served champagne...
...been enough to keep Japan preoccupied all summer, especially since a crisis was germinating simultaneously in the Japanese fighting service's own high command at Tokyo. This crisis crystallized in the assassination of one of mild Japanese War Minister Senjuro Hayashi's senior general staff officers (TIME, Aug. 26) and the emergence of new and more militant War Minister Yoshiyuki Kawashima. Last week the Tokyo sabre-rattlers were ready to give China what it takes to make an obstreperous wife or nation behave...
...South accepted an invitation to join and the Methodist Protestant Church begged to be allowed to collaborate too. In their labors the united commission, according to Secretary John William Langdale. "achieved a unity of mind and spirit which may be prophetic of the unification of the three communions" (TIME, Aug. 26). The new Hymnal, now to be official for 8,000,000 Methodists, was published last week. It contains 210 new hymns, 206 new tunes. The numbers of hymns by Methodism's greatest hymnists, Charles and John Wesley, have been reduced respectively from 121 to 54 and from...