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...practice of "throwing men over 45 on the industrial scrap heap"; a petition to Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker of New York to give his firemen an eight-hour day. But others were more significant, indicated that Labor might be getting its back up. Harshly condemned for "inhuman working conditions" and referred to as "a $700.- 000,000 outrage" was Six Companies, Inc., builder of the Hoover Dam where twelve workers collapsed and died in the Nevada heat last summer (TIME, Aug. 24). And although the convention, encouraged by Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis of Pennsylvania, longtime...
...Field & Stream. Nash Buckingham writing about what he has actually seen states that 40,000 crippled and rotten ducks were found in a 450-acre field. These are the places where a little law enforcement would be useful. Can't blame the drought for such slaughter, only inhuman beings could...
Pleased with what everyone present considered a moral victory, Walker immediately asked for a match with Schmeling. In his dressing room, he learned that his first wife, Mrs. Maude Walker had attached $27,800 of his $42,000 share of the receipts, filed papers accusing him of "almost diabolically inhuman" conduct. Sharkey, taciturn before a fight, always feels very free to talk as soon as he can get his gloves off. Not at all ashamed, he said: "Inactivity beat me. . . . I thought I won. . . . He's nobody's mug and much tougher than Schmeling. . . . I'll fight...
...secretary employed to "humanize him." Students flocked to see not simply the unbending official, but his personality behind the mask of officialdom. They went to see their elders take in good humor an occasional personal jibe. They came back satisfied that after all faculty men are not entirely unsympathetic, inhuman pedagogues. Yale News...
Communists. In the most intense portion of his encyclical Pope Pius termed Communists degenerate, cruel, inhuman, impious, nefarious, and many of their works ghastly. "One section of Socialism," declared His Holiness, "has degenerated into Communism. Communism teaches and pursues a two-fold aim: Merciless class warfare and complete abolition of private ownership. And this it does, not in secret and by hidden methods, but openly, frankly and by every means, even the most violent. To obtain these ends, Communists shrink from nothing and fear nothing, and when they have attained power, it is unbelievable, indeed, it seems portentous, how cruel...