Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With National politics finished, organized Labor and organized Steel last week publicly resumed their titanic battle for control of the nation's half-million steelworkers (TIME, June 15 et...
...against Italy. Geneva newspapers said that not since Woodrow Wilson has any U. S. President been so nearly in sympathy with the League. In Paris, the Cabinet of Premier Léon Blum, who has tried to give his country a modified form of New Deal (TIME, June 15 et seq.), joined the Chamber of Deputies in rejoicing...
...President Ryan bluntly refused to call out his Atlantic longshoremen in a sympathy strike. Last spring Seaman Curran was the leader of the "outlaw" seamen's strike in New York Harbor which failed to win higher wages but caused serious harbor hubbub for three months (TIME, May 25 et seq.). Last week 1,000 members of his insurgent Seamen's Defense Committee voted a strike in Manhattan, delayed several ships from sailing. Night later, 1,000 members of the International Seamen's Union pack-jammed Cooper Union, heard their officers refuse to strike. One read a telegram...
...winner" so that next day he could with an easy conscience go to bed as usual for the winter. But there was neither sleep nor astonishment in the eyes of election officials at Hyde Park, N. Y. at 11 a. m. when they handed out ballot No. 312 et seq. to Franklin D. Roosevelt & family. In succession the President, his mother, his wife, his daughter, his son-in-law disappeared into the voting machines and quickly did their duty. Franklin Jr., 21 in August, slipped hastily around the corner to Hyde Park High School to take a literacy test...
...Bailey, in excellent Latin, recalled the visit made by the Vice-Chancellor as head of the Oxford delegation to the tercentenary celebrations at Harvard. Then Mr. Conant's accomplishments were reviewed and his aim as the head of Harvard set down: ". . . ut hominum societat em maximan ex diversis et ipsam elementsis compositam in unum corpus conformet" with the object of promoting the advancement of both learning and human happiness. It was quite a colorful event, but, so far as catching the Latin went, the Vice-Chancellor might have been calling the majority of the audience names and reprimanding...