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Fortnight ago the greatest British cotton strike since the War ended. In Manchester, Blackburn, Oldham, a halfmillion Lancashire cotton workers trudged from their dingy yellow brick houses back to the mills, agreed to abide by the decision of an Arbitral Board of Five: two workers, two employers and an umpire (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Palliative | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...members it has I do not know. There are 50,000 anyway, because I have received letters from that many. At the WOR station it is estimated that letters are ordinarily received from less than 10% of the listeners-in to any broadcast feature. So there may be a halfmillion. . . ." He stated that he had read all 50,000 letters, replied to many. A Massachusetts mother wrote: "I used to be at my wits' end trying to get my husband and my boys and girls up in the morning." A boy of ten wanted to know if the exercises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Indoors | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

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