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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Francis J. Gorman, captain of Labor's greatest host, last week sat in Washington and counted the first week's results of his national textile strike. Of some 700,000 cotton, woolen, silk and rayon workers whom he had called to idleness, about 375,000 were "out"?because they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Idle Answer | 9/17/1934 | See Source »

When he read the Berlin news, Professor Francis Carter Wood, director of Columbia University's Institute for Cancer Research and editor of the American Journal of Cancer sneered: "This is all rot. There's nothing to it. Plenty of this sort of stuff is coming out of Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Rot | 9/17/1934 | See Source »

British Agent (First National) shows a pair of international agents up to their customary tricks, of spying on each other while they fall in love. Stephen Locke (Leslie Howard) goes to Moscow to prevent Russia from signing a separate peace with Germany. Elena (Kay Francis) is Lenin's secretary, detailed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Operatic Opener | 9/17/1934 | See Source »

By way of experience, Gorman has directed four textile strikes in the last five years. He lost the one at Marion, N. C. in 1929 because of premature attempts to organize Southern millworkers. The Danville, Va. strike in 1931 was also a failure. At Lawrence, Mass, in 1932, the Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Call To Idleness | 9/10/1934 | See Source »

Behind that terse statement by the New York Yacht Club's selection committee last week lay 25 summer days of trial races by the three contenders off Newport, R. I. Last fortnight the weakest candidate, Frederick H. Prince's Weeta-moe, was eliminated. Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's Rainbow settled down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rainbow Defense | 9/10/1934 | See Source »

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