Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spokesmen of 27,000 textile workers of New Bedford, Mass., said NO to the State, citizens, manufacturers. Ever since early April, when a 10% cut in cotton mill wages was announced, the seven unions of the New Bedford Textile Council have conducted a strike (TIME, Aug. 13). The former average wage of $19 a week was. they said, scant enough; $17 was unthinkable. Recently the State Board of Conciliation & Arbitration, the Citizens Mediation Committee, decided to compromise. They proposed only a 5% wage cut. The New Bedford Manufacturers Association agreed. Then the textile unions rejected the proposal by a vote...
...Berlin early risers crowded to the rooftops to cheer this "symbol of German invincibility." Work ceased for the morning. On one rooftop the widow of a former Zeppelin officer, who had kept watch since dawn, dropped dead as the glistening monster drifted overhead...
...than death to part them. It is true that the indigenous qualities of Billie happen often to be its most appealing ones; there is a scene in which two idiotic rogues confer together, making monkeys of themselves and many others. Songs and dances are in Billie also; of the former not the least engaging is one which contains the sweet though unrevealing phrase, "Wherever we were, where were...
...registration and voting for students. This article treats with 12 states whose laws contain some provision for absentee registration. These states are Illinois, Iowa, Kentuoky, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Wisconsin. The laws of Alabama, Miohigan, Mississippi, and New York were printed in a former article; the laws of Arisona and California will not appear because the closing dates for absentee registration in those states have passed...
...regulation affecting the managership of the Polo team announced yesterday by manager F. H. Gade '31 states that hereafter the office of Polo manager must be held by a man, in his Junior year. This ruling was made, due to the fact that former managers have found difficulty in attending to both their studies and managerial duties...