Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...test case. Reasons: 1) Textiles constitute a big section of "the nation's No. 1 economic problem" (the South). 2) Wage-hour conditions in the textile industry are notoriously vulnerable. 3) Textile labor is well-organized and politically effective. 4) As the son of a Rhode Island textile lawyer. Tommy Corcoran knows plenty about low textile wages...
...Soya Strait, just above the northernmost island of Japan, the Soviet provision ship Refrigerator No, 1 was halted by the Japanese, her captain and crew thrown into jail. Japanese authorities questioned their Red captives about the number and equipment of Soviet armed forces facing Manchukuo. To force answers they used the dread Oriental bastinado, beat the soles of the Reds with thin strips of bamboo. On top of this ancient torture, a favorite in China for thousands of years, the Japanese produced electric wires, sparked and shocked the Russians' bleeding soles...
Passionate Corsican Campinchi feels just like every other Corsican about the little island's immortal son. Orator Campinchi declared last week that L'Empereur once said "In time, the sword will always be beaten." Taking this as his Napoleonic, yet democratic text, the navy minister cried: "These words are worthy to be recalled at a time when certain men profess disdain for liberty and a desire to outlaw traditional values which have always assured the nobility of man in our western civilization! Certainly a democratic regime may have weaknesses, but what are they compared with the dangers...
...Havana and, like Mexico's Lázaro Cárdenas, gets firsthand impressions in the decidedly less comfortable interior. Cuba's economic pains, including unemployment, have been only partly cured by the U. S. Good Neighbor policy which reduced the U. S. tariff on the island's big product, sugar. Last week, Colonel Batista moved to help Cuba's unemployed. He did not plan bond issues, increased taxation. Born and brought up as a common man, he decided like a common man that the problem was one of elementary subtraction...
Gateway (Twentieth Century-Fox). Grand Hotel melodrama against an Ellis Island background, with Don Ameche, Arleen Whelan, Gregory Ratoff, Binnie Barnes and Gilbert Roland...