Word: l
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...havoc was on paper. Real tragedy swept the clouds when two planes, flying in close formation in the simulated air raid on Columbus, collided at 10,000 ft. Lieut. Edward L. Meadow was chewed to bits by the propeller of a plane piloted by Lieut. A. Fred Solter. Lieut. Solter, parachuting for his life, was carried to a hospital...
Unlike the Communist-instigated textile strikes in North Carolina (TIME, April 15), the Elizabethton walkout had the full and active support of the A. F. of L. President Green of the Federation formally pro tested to Gov. Horton that troops had been sent at the request of the mill owners "to terrorize the strikers...
...Henry Hollis Horton had appointed President George L. Berry of the International Pressman's Union as the State's mediator in this Labor dispute. Major Berry was born one county away from Happy Valley. He knows the temper of its people. He was a Vice Presidential candidate at the Republican National Convention last year. Great is his influence among Union Workers. Great is the respect U. S. publishers have for him, for his word keeps their presses turning. His good offices quickly settled the famed New York City Pressmen's strike in 1923, when for several days...
...governed by a board of five Directors elected by the People. The Director of Public Affairs is elected Mayor by his fellow Directors. For many a tumultuous week, Jersey City voters have been exhorted to change Directors. A Reform-Fusion organization has been fighting bitterly to turn out Frank L. Hague, Tsar of the North Jersey democracy, vice-chairman of the Democratic National Committee, three times (for the past twelve years) Mayor of Jersey City. Dictator of Private Desires, said the Fusionists, would be a better title for Mr. Hague than Director of Public Affairs...
...distant provinces of Lara, Trujillo, and Portuguesa with an army variously estimated at 50 and 500 men. Venezuela's old Commander-in-Chief moved quickly. Against the 50 (or 500) rash rebels he sent the troops of General Eustoquio Gomez, of General Pedro Maria Cardenas, of General Léon Jurado Felix Galavis and of General Juan Fernandez. To Acting President Juan Bautista Perez he sent the following telegram...