Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan the rank & file insurgents of A. F. of L.'s International Seamen's Union who staged the "unauthorized" maritime strike in Atlantic and Gulf ports last autumn (TIME, Nov. 9 et seq.) finally made a clean break with their old leaders, set up a new National Maritime Union claiming 28,000 members. Announced were plans to join C. I. O., to demand National Labor Relations Board elections to decide whether the old union or the new should have exclusive bargaining rights...
Observers in Rome easily understood this as retaliation for the way the British press gloated over Italy's disastrous defeat at Brihuega in Spain two months ago (TIME, March 29 et seq.) and her even more ignominious rout at the hands of the Basque fishwives of Bermeo last fortnight. Deeper than this, Mussolini has burned for months over British insistence on having a representative of Haile Selassie's Ethiopian Government at the Coronation...
...frustrated Irish Fascist. General O'Duffy was once a rural architect, joined the Irish Republican Army in 1917. Later he opposed Eamon de Valera with a blue-shirted Fascist army of his own (TIME, Oct. 16, 1933 et seq.), had recently faded from the Irish political scene...
...railroad was in danger of being taken out of his hands, he got his second bellyful of state socialism within a year. He was one of the regents of the Bank of France until Premier Blum booted the "200 Families" out of their ancient domination (TIME. July 27 et...
...them when he calls Britons the most unmusical people in the world. Last year Sir Thomas locked the Opera House doors as soon as the overture began. But much as he loves order he could do nothing when, second night of this season. Soprano Germaine Lubin held up Ariane et Barbe-Bleue for a full hour because her nose was bleeding...