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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Much of last week's "tin-panning" was fomented by Miners' Federation Secretary A. J. ("Emperor") Cook, virile Communist, who motored through "weak" striking areas, stump-speaking almost continuously. On his return to London, Mr. Cook telephoned the Ministry of Labor, urgently requested Government mediation between the miners and owners. Since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tin-Panning | 9/6/1926 | See Source »

...annual cure at Aix-les-Bains, Minister of Labor Sir Arthur Ramsay Steel-Maitland hastened from his vacation in Scotland. At the Premier's residence, No. 10 Downing Street, Sir Arthur and Chancellor Churchill of the British Exchequer conferred for an hour and a half with Mr. Cook and President Herbert Smith of the Miners' Federation, arrived at no compromise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tin-Panning | 9/6/1926 | See Source »

Sirs: Here is 15? to pay for the Marcus Garvey number of TIME, June 11, 1923, you so kindly sent me. Thank you. It served the good purpose of truth telling to an intelligent but ignorant colored cook, valuable servant to me. Educating Negroes is difficult -all praise to TIME for timely help. Honor and glory to TIME ! Keep on with footnotes. . . . JEAN M. C. PATTEN Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 30, 1926 | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

...Royal Highness, Edward of Wales, returned to London last week from Sandringham. Edward, speeding in a luxurious first class saloon car, knew not that Arthur J. ("Emperor") Cook, famed "red hot" Communist Secretary of the Coal Miners Federation, was riding a few cars behind, in a third class carriage. As the train drew in to Liverpool Street Station, Mr. Cook, facetious, bowed elaborately from his third class window as a cheer echoed for Edward of Wales. Queried "Emperor" Cook of scandalized newsgatherers: "Is this respect for the Prince or for the 'Emperor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Royal Week | 8/23/1926 | See Source »

...that of tame rabbits. Snails fried alive in butter have a quaint taste. They are tough to chew. Human flesh, when the source is not known, is tender and sweet. Toasted grasshoppers have a nutty flavor. Earth worms, washed clean and gently stewed, have a tangy tartness. Eels even cooked retain their stench of the sea. Snakes. . . . An atavistic nausea sickened the boys. Black jungle folk might drool over the carcass of a boa constrictor. But Penn State students! None the less they were themselves to eat snake flesh to maintain a college tradition. Goggly-eyed, some watched their cook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Klein, Platz | 8/23/1926 | See Source »

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