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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First big strike of the NRA occurred last July in the same Pennsylvania coal fields (TIME, Aug. 7 et seq.). Starting in Fayette County, 50,000 miners walked out in protest against the operators' refusal to recognize John Llewellyn Lewis' United Mine Workers. Riot, bloodshed and death preceded Governor Pinchot's declaration of martial law and his dispatch of guardsmen. A temporary peace was patched up when President Roosevelt sent Deputy Administrator McGrady into the coal fields as his personal emissary to promise the strikers a square deal under NRA. With mining resumed, coal code negotiations...
...patroling the border to shoo back Nazi planes coming over with propaganda pamphlets. He did not add that every Chancellery but one in Europe knew what sword-handy Henry Bérenger, president of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the French Senate, wrote last week in the Agence Economique et Financière: "It is useless to temporize or quibble; Austria must remain outside Germany or there will be a European conflict-and what a conflict!-within a short time. . . . Will the Nazis take Salzburg by force? And if this coup takes place, however it may happen, will Europe...
Last week indigent Actor Packard was indicted along with Solomon Sugarman (disbarred attorney), George Gopin (once convicted of impersonating a Prohibition agent). Paul Rosen, Ruben Hirsch, Irving Cohen et al. No indictment was returned against Maxwell H. Brown. He had never existed. His name had been signed to letters by an 18-year-old office...
When President Hamilton Holt of Rollins College (Winter Park, Fla.) ousted Professor John Andrew Rice last spring as a too-outspoken individualist (TIME, June 19 et seq.), he split his college into two angry factions, a large pro and a small anti. Out of the Rollins rumpus last week emerged a jump college. The antis clung together, their number increased to nine (out of a faculty of 45) by dismissals and resignations after the college year ended. They looked for financial backing and a place to settle. They found both. The site is a religious conference centre complete with buildings...
Henry Ford, Herbert Hoover, President Roosevelt, Senator James Couzens, the banks' officials, the Depression and J. Pierpont Morgan have all, individually and in sundry paradoxical combinations, been blamed for Detroit's banking troubles (TIME, Aug. 28 et ante). Last week Detroit was amazed to hear that a highly successful 18th Century London stockbroker whose father was a Dutch Jew was really responsible...