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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Two months ago workers were organized by A. F. of L. agents in the cotton mill of Marion Manufacturing Co., owned by Spinster Sallie Baldwin of Baltimore. When the union hands struck, the mill closed down. Unionization spread to the mills of the Clinchfield Co. which also shut down temporarily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: They Act Alike | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

No testimony could the captain of the San Juan give. He, Capt. Adolph F. Asplund, grizzled 65-year-old sea dog, had gone down with his ship. Strangely, it had been a "friendship" voyage for him. For three years retired, he had accommodated a brother captain desirous of a vacation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Off Pigeon Point | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

Secrets of Nature (UFA). This is partly a rearrangement of old UFA shots of animals and insects, partly new material. After a routine educational feature about bees you see how ants get the best of a caterpillar, and how a snail beats them; how they get drunk after drinking a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 9, 1929 | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

The Sophomore (Pathé). Here is one of those cinema colleges without buildings or curriculum, but this time composed strangely of youths who do not smoke or drink and who expel a fraternity brother as soon as they find a girl in his room. One Eddie Quillan uses trite situations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 9, 1929 | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

Sacked and burned by fleet-riding Arabs was the ancient town of Safed, for centuries a seat of mystical Jewish learning. The Moslem version of the affray could not be learned, but Jews told of fleeing headlong through the streets, dodging into houses, making what resistance they could while the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Islam v. Israel | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

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