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...take her to sea again unless their pay was jacked from the Atlantic rate, under which they had signed on, to the Pacific rate, some $5 a month higher. While the officers talked of arresting the entire crew for mutiny, most of the 441 passengers settled down to await the dispute's outcome. A few voyagers, including onetime Dancer Adele Astaire and her husband Lord Charles Cavendish, started East by land...
...shop, put in a call to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins in Washington. Though she was at a formal Cabinet dinner for President Roosevelt, she went at once to a telephone booth in her evening gown, began to argue. Hour later, the strikers agreed to return to the California, await negotiation of their case in Manhattan. Said Madam Secretary Perkins next day: "You can imagine what I looked like when I walked out of that telephone booth...
...Russia the worried Bolsheviks consider themselves likely objects of Japanese and German pincers closing upon Russia in simultaneous war from East and West (TIME. Feb. 24). The prostrate Chinese as they scanned the news from Tokyo this week remained particularly prostrate, a comfortable posture in which they await Japanese bankruptcy, Japanese proletarian revolution, Japanese defeat by Russia or the decay of Japanese from temperamental instability in a few hundred or thousand years...
Last week, at President Roosevelt's direction, the War Department issued an order summarily relieving General Hagood of his command, ordering him to proceed from his headquarters at San Antonio, Tex. to his home at Orangeburg, S. C. to "await orders...
...sufficient to coat them and the surface with glare ice. Sand is a useful article whose virtues seem to have been ignored in this crisis; the qualities of sand are admirable, not only on icy streets but on icy sidewalks; not all the sidewalks have been sanded, and thrills await the traveller on the more remote byways. Quick snow removal, and a liberal application of sand, would make progress afoot and awheel less picturesque, but more efficient...