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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...settlement was finally arranged by which the front office clerks, about 75, were recognized, though on other points the strikers lost ground. Even after the settlement the strikers refused to return to work until the hotels signed contracts with twelve nonstriking unions such as barbers, electricians, musicians, et al. When this was done the hotels reopened...
...Busily tugging the teats of some of her husband's cows last week was Mrs. Carla de Vries, the woman who kissed Adolf Hitler at the Olympic Games last year (TIME, Aug. 24, 1936, et seq.). George de Vries' 1,000-cow Vitamin D Dairy in Norwalk near Los Angeles was strike-bound by C. I. O.'s Dairy Workers' Union. Plodding up & down the picket line led by a striking herdsman was a placid Jersey cow bearing the placard: I WON'T BE MILKED BY A SCAB...
After raging furiously for over a fortnight the "Battle of Madrid" simmered down last week to a peevish interchange of inconsequent bombardments. The great Leftist offensive launched "to raise the Siege of Madrid" (TIME, July 26 et seq.) had been broken by the Rightists at Brunete and not a single structure stood last week in that shattered spearhead of the Madrid defenders' advance. As pretty, Polish Mile. Gerda Taro, 25, was taking pictures for LIFE and footage for the MARCH OF TIME of the retreat from Brunete she was killed...
...British Protectorate. The suzerainty of Turkey over Egypt is thus terminated." After the War the British puppetized on the throne of Egypt as "Sultan" the father of today's Boy-King, His Late Majesty Fuad I, who in his declining years was styled "King" (TIME, May 11, 1936 et ante). Last week, however, big-boned, fair and six-foot-tall Farouk I was correctly hailed by Egyptian dignitaries representing his 16,000,000 subjects as "The first Sovereign invested as King of modern Egypt, the Senior Arab Kingdom...
...treaty granted Egypt the status of an "Independent Sovereign State." excepting that the Sudan was entirely reserved to Britain, and her garrisons remained quartered throughout Egypt. It was actually Benito Mussolini-the Dictator buttered the Egyptians with many blandishments while he was making for Ethiopia (TIME, Nov. 4, 1935 et seq.)- who convinced the British that if they are to retain effective control of Egypt they must do so even more unobtrusively. Thus a new Anglo-Egyptian Treaty was signed by Premier Nahas and Mr. Anthony Eden on cream-colored parchment tied with blue ribbons at the British Foreign Office...