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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the high commands of the two great U. S. labor forces were assembled in simultaneous convention last month- A. F. of L. in Denver, C.I.O. in Atlantic City-they agreed in a sudden exchange of insulting telegrams to hold a formal peace conference. Last week the two delegations met in Washington-three men from A. F. of L., ten from C.I.O. From the start the conference seemed doomed. Superstitious reporters noted that the delegates numbered 13. Even the site of the conference, the creaky old Willard Hotel, was inauspicious, for the Willard itself is involved in one of those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Road to Peace | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

This Hoover plan is to hold a Republican convention to draw up a platform- just as is done in Presidential elections- before next year's Congressional elections. Some Republican Congressmen, and presumably Alf Landon, fear that votes may be lost locally by a platform assaulting the New Deal. Herbert Hoover brushed this aside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Strategists Differ | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...Premier but only to the Emperor direct, this peculiar setup often leading to excessive maladjustment between the fighting services. Last week they slugged together to bend back the Chinese line in the country zone outside Shanghai so sharply that it would be impossible for Chinese forces to continue to hold Chapei in the urban zone (see map, p. 19). Tazang was the town at which the Japanese decided to push big, after bombing and shelling it for nearly a month, and last week their assault was highly mechanized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Never Anything Greater! | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...rural battle line bent back, Chinese General Sun Yuan-liang, seeing it had become impossible to hold Chapei, ordered what remained of this heavily bombed and shelled Chinese shambles to be set afire. Hurling sulphur and other incendiary materials, Chinese firebugs heroically raised an immense pall of smoke over Chapei beneath which the Chinese defenders executed in the night what foreign military experts in Shanghai called one of the most orderly and efficient retreats ever made in Oriental warfare. Stimulating to morale throughout China was the staying behind in a Chapei warehouse of 500 Chinese troops of "Chiang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Never Anything Greater! | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...sabotage the election" simply by a lack of pulp. Lacking too, According to irate Pravda and Izvestia, are pencils in anything like sufficient quantities to mark the 100,000,000 ballots expected to be cast. To have to buy shiploads of pencils from Capitalist countries in order to hold "The Most Democratic Election" was a dire expedient against which Soviet Leaders were still set as a matter of prestige. To help get enough pencils for the election, the State last week was having Soviet pupils and Soviet teachers in numerous schools do their writing and arithmetic entirely without lead pencils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Pulp or No Pulp! | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

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