Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Calif., about 150 miles from the sea but connected with San Francisco Bay by a deep water channel, cans and ships the fruits and vegetables of the fertile San Joaquin Valley. Fortnight ago the Agricultural Workers Union called a strike in four of Stockton's largest canneries, demanding better pay, shorter hours. The Agricultural Workers Union belongs to the A.F. of L. but the strike was ordered by Stockton's Central Labor Council which is controlled by the I.L.A. On the Pacific Coast, however, Joseph P. Ryan has no control over I.L.A. Its leadership there belongs to Harry...
...plenty of wild oats." "not to love their wives too much when finally they marry." Other Blum tenets for successful marriage are: "Don't marry for love. . . ." Men should have sexual adventures, "otherwise married life soon will strike them as insipid and monotonous" though "it is better to choose love affairs before marriage than after." Women are not ready for marriage before 30 because until then they are in "a polygamous state...
...sent to Madrid dissolving Madrid's Supreme Defense Junta, headed by formidable General José Miaja who for almost six months has been the Capital's all-powerful boss. Because Madrid had been shelled for 13 consecutive days Premier Largo Caballero felt that General Miaja had better concentrate on fighting the Rightists. In less than 24 hours a municipal council of 33 civilian antifascists was formed to administer Madrid, which thus again reverted to civilian rule. Elected to head the new Municipal Council was 45-year-old Rafael Henche de la Plata, onetime head of a bakers...
...Labor Department's Chief Clerk Samuel Gompers, son & namesake of the late American Federation of Labor's founder, celebrated his soth anniversary in Government service in Washington. Declared he: "If I were a wealthy man, I would want nothing better to occupy my time and mind than this job I've got." After booking steamer reservations to England for himself and three blonde secretaries, Thomas Franklyn (''Tommy") Manville Jr., playboy asbestos heir, canceled the trip, explaining that he had reneged, not because his estranged fourth wife Marcelle Edwards had reserved passage on the same boat...
...story, Author Mark Twain set out to show that palaces were not much better than the people in them. At Windsor, young Tom Canty falls under the wing of the bad Earl of Hertford (Claude Rains) who, when he hears Tom's story about how he got into the palace, merely tells King Henry that the Prince is mad. When the old king dies. Hertford plans to execute the Duke of Norfolk and have Tom Canty crowned, with himself as Lord Protector. As things shape up, he seems in a fair way to accomplish...