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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...violence forced 58 plants, representing 200 million's worth of capital and a half million in Social Security taxes, to close for keeps--statistics which Washington admitted it makes no effort to collect. Unions cannot afford to be divided, to hold Communistic and racketeering elements, nor to coerce the free will of their members...
...Meiling. The Conqueror replied that he would not adopt a new religion merely to win a bride, but that if Miss Soong would marry him he would agree to study Christianity, and then do as he saw fit. No ordained Christian pastor could be found who thought General Chiang free to marry Miss Soong, so a lay Y.M.C.A. secretary united them in holy matrimony. From the day General Chiang thus took his No. 2 wife, both his character and his fortunes rapidly commenced to take on a certain grandeur. Eventually he also became a Christian...
...Whistler's Mother (TIME, Nov. 14, 1932). In November the all-pervading Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration completed its first two years. Among its accomplishments were a much-publicized renaissance of mural painting, a great work of national scholarship in the Index of American Design,* free art classes for children and adults in about 60 towns and cities, the employment of 5,000 artists. The year was also notable for two great gifts to the public by rich men: the Mellon collection to the U. S. Government and the exceptional Bache collection to the State...
...weeks ago the new quarterly You thought it had reached the acme of daring female magazine journalism when it told what to do for "Your Bosom" (TIME, Nov. 15). But last week Free Lancer Maxine Davis wrote in Pictorial Review a story on the prostate gland which made You's frankness read like Sunday-school talk. A year ago Hearst's Pictorial Review decided, after a survey, that its 25-year-old typical reader wants open discussion of problems not usually found in ladies' journals, embarked Maxine Davis on a series covering abortions, syphilis, menopause, degenerative diseases...
According to Dr. Claude Conrad, a missionary official of Washington, D. C.: "A majority of the ship's crew came into camp more or less incapacitated and abusive from the effects of free indulgence in the ship's liquor stores. Out of control of officers partially in the same condition, many of the crew men continued most of the night terrorizing passengers and natives." However, when the liquored seamen began hunting for women passengers sleeping in scattered houses ashore, some officers and other passengers formed a vigilante group to protect them. There was no actual molestation. There would...