Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...depressed. Two miners tried to divide the work of one. When the Jacksonville agreement lapsed and the operators refused to renew it, President Lewis opposed any wage reduction, kept Union miners out of work. Strikes were called only to fail in human misery and destitution (TIME, Nov. 28, 1927 et seq.). Members quit the U. M. W. to find work in non-Union fields. "Yellow dog" contracts replaced Union agreements. Once 308,000 Union miners worked in bituminous fields, outside of Illinois. Now there are a scant 26,000. Union membership in Ohio has dwindled from...
...water*from the sea, extract the salt therefrom in direct defiance of the British government's Indian salt monopoly and tax. This symbolic act would inaugurate the Civil Disobedience campaign, long contemplated by Saint Gandhi as a new, potential means of protest against British rule (TIME, Jan. 13 et ante). Thereafter, countless adherents of Saint Gandhi would be expected to harass the British government with similar infractions...
...call it the Young Plan!" Squarely and consistently Dr. Schacht took his stand last week on the same "high moral ground" which he mentioned at the second Hague Conference (TIME, Jan. 13, et seq.). He charged then that the original Owen D. Young reparations plan, drawn up at Paris by world's greatest financiers (TiME, Feb. 18, 1929, et seq.), has now been so modified by politicians like Philip Snowden and Andre Tardieu that it is no longer the same thing. "Don't call it the 'Young Plan' any more!" snapped Dr. Schacht last week. "At the second Hague Conference...
Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis's jewels have been his sons-in-law. With the late Edward William Bok he built his great magazine publishing business (Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, et al.). And for the last 17 years his dapper, alert step-son-in-law, John Charles Martin, has busied himself in the other Curtis publishing enterprise, that of gaining control of the Philadelphia newspaper field. Announced, last week, was the seventh addition to Curtis-Martin Newspapers Inc.?The Philadelphia Inquirer...
...last week the highest Bok Award, the big gold medal "For Distinguished Contemporary Service to Advertising," went to the father-in-law who should have had it years ago, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, of the Saturday Evening Post, et al, "because of his strict adherence ... to high standards of reliability in advertising...