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All these labor disturbances paled beside the strikes which last week pock-marked Eastern Pennsylvania. Of the 25,000 workers on strike throughout the U. S., 18,000 were in Pennsylvania. The trouble centred mostly in the hosiery industry as a result of attempts by the American Federation of Full...
For a time the storm beat chiefly around the educational issues involved. Then it centred on political machinations and the authenticity of the Board's announced $10,000,000 deficit in 1933 which it had offered as motive of its economizing. At the mass meeting Dean Judd traced the...
Instead of being called Soviets the various councils which comprise the Nanking Government are called yuans. As in Russia the so-called "President" (Mr. Lin Sen) and so-called "Premier" (Mr. Wang Ching-wei) are of scant importance, effective power being centred nationally in Generalissimo Chiang and his Brother-in...
Pilot Kinney swung his plane into a wide counterclockwise turn, simultaneously switched his radio to a different frequency. Presently his earphones and instrument dial picked up beacon signals again. These came from the runway beacon, which is simply a miniature of the big airway beacon. They told him he was...
Born on a Nebraska farm, George Dern went to the University of Nebraska, played on its championship football team, once had his pants torn completely off in a tackle. Migrating to Utah, he got a job as bookkeeper with a gold mine, learned engineering, helped to invent the Holt-Dern...