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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Knudsen's third point-that every one of the G. M. strikes had been called against the wishes of a vast majority of the workers affected-the Labor leaders did not comment. Backing for the G. M. executive's assertion came in Flint when all 500 employes of Buick's sheet metal plant sent Buick President Harlow H. Curtice a loyal New Year's greeting, following up a similar Christmas message sent by 1,400 transmission plant workers. But in the automobile industry's complex production mechanism, withdrawal of a few key workmen is just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Prelude to Battle | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

When Pittsburgh was invited to play in the Rose Bowl, Los Angeles sports writers suggested their readers might boycott the game on the ground that the Panthers would provide no opposition, scolded Washington for picking a pushover. If they read the publicity, the Panthers had sense enough to withhold comment until the ball was kicked off to them. The pushovers then began to push...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bowls | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

...orchids too badly faded for presentation to the Governor" was the sole comment of the post commander of the Young Voters Boondoggling and Temperance League interviewed last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FAILURE OF FLORISTS RUIN PLAN OF "ORCHID TO CURLEY" | 1/7/1937 | See Source »

...character in his circumstances and of the actor in his histrionics are bound to be winning. Ant then a certain embarrassed chuckle, sometimes developing into a full-grown roar, is the answer to every complex situation and is just as effective in provoking mirth as lines of clever comment could be. While Mr. Cohan's horse sense and homely goodness are well-calculated to captivate the middle-aged security-lovers in audience and play, it is not so easy to understand their fabulous effects over pretty young things. Can it be a touch of personal vanity that makes him have...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 1/6/1937 | See Source »

Without confirming or denying anything, Adolf Hitler's personal newsorgan Volkischer Beobachter significantly ruminated thus: "Newspapers are full of alarming rumors and comment on the development of the crisis in Spain and speak of a joint Anglo-French protest in Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Uneasy Christmas | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

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