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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Committee for Industrial Organization, backed by the Wagner Act, Boss John L. Lewis proposes to extend to all unorganized industrial workers willy-nilly, was content to leave the Motor Front quiescent for seven days. But on the Steel Front one sector reached the tense pitch of martial...
...land. For U. S. Mohammedans there are two places for formal worship, a small, three-story frame building in Brooklyn and a temple in Michigan City, Ind., whose 80 Moslems plan to build a mosque when they acquire enough money. Elsewhere Moslems who cannot gather in large groups are content to worship in one another's homes. Singapore has the world's only mosque with a public address system, the muezzin's call to prayer being heard a mile away through amplifiers in the mosque's four 90-ft. minarets...
...Blum's remarks by echoes from the conference of the International Labor Office, meeting at Geneva. There, representing President Roosevelt and U. S. Labor, Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward Francis McGrady sounded off: "I predict that the world's working men and women will not forever be content to stand by while civilized living is being sacrificed on the altar of armaments, nor longer be willing to forge a means of their own destruction...
...first time in 1930 by throwing President-elect Julio Prestes in jail and was legally "reelected" for his present term which expires next year. Last week even the remotest of Brazil's jungle towns heard the news they had long been awaiting: that Strong Man Vargas is content to abide by Brazil's Constitution which forbids him to succeed himself in January's presidential election. Chosen in Rio de Janeiro by an all-party conclave as the "official" (i. e., majority) candidate for the presidency last fortnight, President Vargas' onetime Minister of Communications José Americo...
Relying on the radio reports of a U. S. Navy-National Geographic Society expedition, a Brown expedition, and a group of Peruvian and Japanese scientists, the University astronomers were content to stay at home yesterday during the first total eclipse...