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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...precise measures of disarmament France might be prepared to take in return for the security resulting from international arms control. Meanwhile restive Paris newspapers raised the bugaboo of Germany's threat last year to withdraw from and wreck the Disarmament Conference unless granted "equality of armaments" (TIME, Aug. 1, 1932). Chancellor Hitler-cartooned by Paris Aux Ecoutes as a hawk with swastika talons hovering over the Disarmament Conference dovecote from which peep Chairman Arthur Henderson, Premier MacDonald and M. Paul-Boncour (see cut)-was said to be ready to press the same threat again. Anxiously Mr. Davis, Sir John...
First big strike of the NRA occurred last July in the same Pennsylvania coal fields (TIME, Aug. 7 et seq.). Starting in Fayette County, 50,000 miners walked out in protest against the operators' refusal to recognize John Llewellyn Lewis' United Mine Workers. Riot, bloodshed and death preceded Governor Pinchot's declaration of martial law and his dispatch of guardsmen. A temporary peace was patched up when President Roosevelt sent Deputy Administrator McGrady into the coal fields as his personal emissary to promise the strikers a square deal under NRA. With mining resumed, coal code negotiations...
...squeeze a still bigger Army and Navy out of gasping Japanese taxpayers. At the same time he pointed to the U. S. Atlantic Fleet's continued presence in the Pacific and the letting of new naval contracts to build the U. S. Navy close to treaty limits (TIME, Aug. 14): "There is no telling what America will do when her navy is definitely superior to Japan's after 1935-" Count Uchida had heard enough. He decided on a "big change'' right away: a long rest somewhere far from sound of Sadao Araki's voice...
...fight against "dictatorship" occurred when newspaper publishers insisted on eliminating all licensing provisions from their NRA code (TIME, Aug. 28). Said Dean Ackerman...
Desiring to raise farm income by reducing the pig population of the U. S. (TIME, Aug. 28), the Farm Administration announced a month ago that it would buy 4, 000,000 young pigs and 1,000,000 farrowing sows at a premium ($9.50 per 100 lb. for 25-pounders down to $6 on 100-pounders, and $4 a head flat on farrowing sows). Farmers expecting better hog prices next year cannily held back their farrowing sows, sold the Government only 200,000 up to last week. But so eager were farmers to be rid of young hogs that shipments poured...