Word: excepts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Oniy General in U. S. History except Grant, Sherman and Sheridan, Pershing, his work done, is expected to retire now, having completed 14 years with the Commission. Before returning to the U. S. he will model for an equestrian statue the French are erecting at Versailles to commemorate the A. E. F. *Of 78,734 soldiers who died in France, 46,000 have been returned to this country for burial; 3,652 are still missing, 600 are buried at sea. Some 1,700 bodies remain unidentified. It cost the Government $394 to repatriate a dead U. S. soldier from France...
...much as $1.50 for a pound of butter last week. Storekeepers limited purchases of eggs to a half-dozen. Pork was hard to get at any price. Reason: 1,000 A. F. of L. truck drivers and warehousemen struck for the closed shop, affecting every store in the city except Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. At the same time 1,300 C. I. O. packing house workers struck for recognition, a preferential shop, shorter hours, higher wages. Nearby farmers did a rushing roadside business. By week's end the truck & warehouse strike had been mediated but the packing strike...
...needling about its ''anti-union" tactics that the more serious-minded unionists around U. A. W. headquarters were in a high huff. Loudly-and correctly-they pointed out that U. A. W. was already living up to most of the U. O. P. W. A. demands except on minor points like seniority, lighting, restrooms. As for lighting and restrooms, that was up to the Hofmann Building management, not the U. A. W. management. Speedy negotiations leading to a formal contract signed by U. A. W. President Homer Martin were predicted...
...United Kingdom. Even the nearby Canadian building, largely devoted to a tasteful showing of excellent photographs of the Great Open Spaces, is better. Sadly, Britain's great Liberal daily Manchester Guardian recently observed: "The external architecture of the British pavilion is that of a plain white biscuit-tin . . . except for a glass pane with a highly conventional and sour-looking Britannia...
...from Cairo, Egypt to Vichy, France where an eminent expert on protocol was taking a water cure. The question was whether to crown His Majesty with the golden fillet once worn by Ancient Egypt's King Tutankhamen and only unearthed in recent years. This was a good idea, except that Mohammedan sovereigns are never crowned, and Premier Nahas knew that the Egyptian people grew accustomed, when they were subjects of Turkey, to seeing each new Sultan symbolically invested with the Sword. Fortunately modern Egypt possesses the gorgeously jeweled sword of Mohammed Ali, founder of the present Egyptian dynasty...