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...review its record and ponder its future the S. W. O. C. last week held its first national convention in Pittsburgh. Since S. W. O. C. is not a union but an organizing group headed by Philip Murray, the convention was, in effect, a policy-making body made up of nearly 1,000 delegates from Amalgamated lodges. Four out of five delegates went to the convention straight from the heat of the mills. Nearly half of them were old company union men who had helped lead their organizations into C. I. O. Daily for four days they packed themselves into...
English newsorgans have printed little, the English public has thought less about the fact that next week, when the newly adopted Irish Free State Constitution (TIME, July 12 et ante) goes into effect, His Majesty King George VI will have been completely erased from any constitutional status or even mention in the land of Eamon de Valera. This may be only a paper defeat for London, but tall, teacherish President de Valera used his parliament at Dublin last week to rub in his paper victory in a manner as annoying as possible to the English. To launch his Free State...
This was more than jest. Mr. John Whelan Dulanty, the High Commissioner in London for the Irish Free State, was reported last week ready to observe the coming into effect of the de Valera Constitution next week by assuming his new title "High Commissioner for Ireland"-i.e. by implication for all Ireland, including not only the Free State but also Ulster. Mr. Dulanty was reported to have taken delivery of letterheads with his new title. Next week under its new Constitution the Irish Free State will also drop its present title and style itself "Ireland...
...Significance-In effect Abel Yenu-kidze was the Louis McHenry Howe of the Kremlin under Stalin. That he and such another old friend as Orakhelashvili, as well as so great a Soviet statesman as Karakhan, should be liquidated left the world but two plausible hypotheses to choose from: either Stalin is madly destroying his best friends, or they, like Trotsky, have come to believe that Stalin has betrayed the Revolution. In any case something is very rotten in Russia...
...Inventor Hansell last week explained in his own words: "The process of forming the image takes advantage of the effect of integration or accumulation of the effect of the waves upon the screen and this increases its sensitivity...