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...fine sieve of this technicality might hold diplomatic eau de cologne, but what British Labor smelled slopping over was yet another British Conservative deal like that Sir Samuel Hoare attempted with Benito Mussolini (TIME, Dec. 30, 1935), only this time a deal on Spain, not Ethiopia. Nevertheless the Labor Party last week put up feeble resistance in the House of Commons, which upheld the Government's course...
Last week, for a change, Scotland provided British music halls with a joke on itself. In the House of Commons, Scottish M. P.'s were discussing a Spirits Bill for Scotland. Before them came an expert on Scottish peculiarities who revealed that, by mixing milk with cheap Eau de Cologne, a potent potion can be made for next to nothing. Added the expert: "This drink is a common one in Scotland. . . . Four gallons would do the trick on a whole football crowd." The Scottish M. P.'s, blushing for the fair name of Scotch whiskey, indignantly recommended that...
...employe. In Detroit. 1.500 employes of National Automotive Fibres, Inc. (floor mats, cushions, door panels for Chrysler and others) struck against discharge of ten U. A. W. workers, went back next day with the unionists reinstated, a 5?per-hour pay raise won. In Eau Claire, Wis. 2,000 jobs came to a halt when Gillette Rubber Co. (tires & tubes) was shut down by a strike for better working conditions by employe-members of C. I. O.'s United Rubber Workers. Still idle in Detroit at week's end were 5,000 parts-making employes of Kelsey-Hayes...
...death of the late Bishop Elmer Nicholas Schmuck; Rev. Dr. Douglas H. Atwill of St. Paul to the North Dakota district; Dean Harry Beal of Los Angeles to the Canal Zone. The bishops settled another Episcopal matter which had long plagued the Church: whether Bishop Frank Elmer Wrilson of Eau Claire, Wis. had been justified in receiving in his cathedral as a Bishop Rev. Dr. John William Charles Toch Torok, Orthodox Catholic. The House of Bishops decided...
...Eau Claire, Wis., when the Chicago & North Western's mile-a-minute "400" flyer halted briefly, police found Floyd Newman clinging to the locomotive's headlight. Remarked Floyd Newman: "It's the fastest piece of iron I ever rode...