Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strikes by Communists, or led by Com- munists, were Witness Wood's chief topic. He said the needletrade walkouts at Passaic, N. J. (TIME, March 15, 1926 et seq.), at New Bedford, Mass. (TIME, June 2, 1928), at Gastonia, N. C. (TIME, April 15, 1929 et seq.) were started by Reds who appealed to "parlor pinks" for "relief funds," but who disappeared when such money stopped coming in. He urged strict anti-Red legislation but discounted the affects of the Reds among U. S. work- ingmen: "They never won a strike in the U. S. . . . So far as taking this...
Only the Labor press was jubilant, hailed James Ramsay MacDonald as he seemed to advance upon the platform of broad and sympathetic dealings with subject peoples which he laid down at Geneva last fall (TIME, Sept. 9, et seq.). Badly perplexed, for he has but the slenderest majority in Parliament, Mr. MacDonald said to a cheering Labor audience : "The men [Indians] with whom we wish to cooperate have had to be arrested for actions which, if they themselves had been responsible for a purely Indian government and had been faced with conditions such as those they have created recently, would...
...Johnson, England-to-Australia solo flyer (TIME, June 2 et seq.) boarding a ship for London, admitted she had been "bored to tears" by Australia's adulation...
Forgotten last week was the great pledge of all Chicago newspapers to unite in avenging the murder of the Tribune's reporter Jake Lingle (TIME, June 23 et seq.) After Lingle had been exposed as racketeering with the powers of his newspaper, charges were made by Reporter Harry T. Brundidge of the St. Louis Star of similar racketeering by men of all Chicago papers. Then all the papers quarreled, eyed each other with ill-concealed suspicion...
United Aircraft & Transport Corp., which last spring acquired the first transcontinental system of airlines after a bitter fight with the Curtiss-Keyes group (TiME, April 14, et seq.), last week without a struggle extended its control through the Northwest. Already operating the Boeing System from Chicago to San Francisco, and Pacific Air Transport from Los Angeles to Seattle, United closed a triangle by absorbing Varney Air Lines, Inc., from Salt Lake City to Portland, Seattle and Spokane. One share of United was exchanged for two of Varney...