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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...membership of this local cannot see what the C.I.O. has in any way to offer us. . . . The C.I.O., having been in existence for two years, has as yet not organized itself as a central federation. It has had no convention. It has no constitution and bylaws, and appears to be what John L. Lewis or some other high-up says it is. It appears to be a dictatorship by a top committee which is all against the principles fought for and established by the component organizations of the Maritime Federation of the Pacific Coast...
...defray the expenses of himself and suite during the Crown Prince's first year of education in England. With Egyptian guards bristling all over the place, Farouk took up country residence at Kenry House, Kingston Hill, soon was greatly liked for his democratic ways by local English tradespeople who still speak of him as "Prince Freddy." Invariably Farouk's four "F" sisters dressed like demure English schoolgirls with pigtails down their backs. Queen Nazli excelled her brood in snapping, developing and printing photographs. Her Majesty is a descendant of a French com-mander of dragoons whom the Emperor...
Tientsin Shambles. General Kazuki meanwhile had blundered spectacularly at Tientsin, the teeming port through which during the past month Japan has poured an invading army (TIME, July 26). So deceptively abject were the local Chinese population, its coolies meekly unloading Japanese munitions and its Chinese officials blandly obliging, that General Kazuki did not bother to keep Tientsin heavily garrisoned, hurried almost all the Japanese troops he landed directly inland toward Peiping. Suddenly about 2 a. m. Chinese artillery secretly brought close to Tientsin started shelling the central and east railway stations used by the Japanese. Simultaneously Chinese snipers, evidently well...
...with the Nationalist guerrillas. Irish County Inspector Hannay (John Lodge) and British Captain Wiltshire of the Royal Intelligence Corps (John Loder) both dedicated to preserving British law & order, have captured a pair of important emissaries from Sinn Fein headquarters but their lorry is hijacked by a mysterious local Sinn Fein chieftain named Commandant O'Dea (Niall MacGinnis). Neither suspects that O'Dea is the high spirited young brother of Maureen Elliot (Antoinette Cellier), the Irish girl with whom both are in love. Maureen does not suspect either, until Commandant O'Dea is surprised on a tip given...
...number of musicians on its payroll. All these musicians must be union members. No station could transmit music to a pickup station that did not employ musicians. Every station must be licensed by the A. F. of M., use only records and transcriptions similarly licensed. Every contract between a local and a radio station must clearly acknowledge these terms. Before playing canned music the announcer must announce it as such...