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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Unionization & Strikes | 7/31/1933 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Defrilled Chicago | 7/31/1933 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: CHINA Unfit | 3/20/1933 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Beam Landing | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Roosevelt's Ten | 3/6/1933 | See Source »

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