Word: bretons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strike had for many months been in force at the collieries of the British Empire Steel Corporation at New Waterford, near Sydney, on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Intransigence on the part of employers and employed had made settlement of the dispute impossible...
...walkout of coal miners at Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, last month, was the subject of an interpellation in the House of Commons at Ottawa. Miss Agnes MacPhail asked if the Government intended to sit calmly "while thousands are starving in Cape Breton." James A. Robb, Minister of Finance, stated laconically that no change of policy was contemplated. The strike grew out of an attempt to apply a 10% wage cut, but did not become active until the coal company contended that the workers had overdrawn their credit at the company's supply stores, cut off further credit. Twelve thousand...
Lass O' Laughter. Flora Le Breton, London actress, has arrived in a comedy that is a mixture of Bertha M. Clay* and lemon meringue pie. She starts as a slavey, advances via an inheritance to the lordly Maxwell Towers, marries the glistening young Earl. So oldfashioned, obvious and generally fallible is the piece that there remain only the efforts of Miss Le Breton for discourse. She is called "the Mary Pickford of England." Many cinema potentates were in the initial audience to judge her values. She turned out to be a small and somewhat fluffy blonde, abounding in energy...
...little Breton village, a peasant walked aimlessly about. His eyes strayed to a spot where men were busy loading apples into a railway car; and, at the same time, he perceived a familiar face. Where had he met this man? After some ruminating, it suddenly dawned upon him. Approaching the man, the peasant inquired politely: "Excuse me, monsieur, are you not Lieutenant Knätsch...
Mighty proud was First Lieutenant Knätsch, who had come to Brittany to buy apples for making German champagne, to have his name and rank remembered; and he replied vigorously that his name was indeed Knätsch. "Good!" exclaimed the Breton. "I have a little account to settle with you." Thereupon, he set about beating the German; and if it had not been for the intervention of workmen the latter would surely have been killed...