Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime Pennsylvania's Governor Earle was discontinuing the martial law by which he had closed Bethlehem's great Cambria plant in Johnstown. When it became apparent that the strike would not be settled by mediation. Governor Earle decided his enforced shut-down was no longer warranted. Having decided to permit the Bethlehem plant to reopen, having determined to prevent bloodshed by keeping State troopers on the scene, the Governor had only one course open: protect non-strikers from violence. Since law & order is seldom compatible with an effective strike, this "Labor Governor" too found himself in Labor...
...months Germany has done her best to justify that criticism. . . . We sit around and hold meetings of the Non-intervention Committee, and I have no doubt that the German Ambassador [Ribbentrop] and the Italian Ambassador [Grandi] regard it as a great joke. . . . Is this cruel imposture going on any longer...
...teachers, secularized 966 schools. This was in flagrant violation of the Nazi Concordat with the Vatican (TIME, July 17, 1933 and ailing Pope Pius, attended by twelve cardinals, was reported to feel that an open diplomatic rupture between the Hooked-Cross (Swastika) and the Cross cannot be much longer avoided. Meanwhile the great bulk of German Protestants who, like the Catholics, are resisting Nazi encroachments in spiritual matters as best they can, were subjected last week to fresh raids, arrests and browbeatings by police. The Protestants' leader, Rev. Dr. Martin Niemöller, onetime submarine commander, bobbed...
Biggest U. S. news story of 1937 is the resurgence of Labor. Far longer lived than the Great Flood story and even deeper in its social and political significance than President Roosevelt's battle with the Supreme Court, it is news breaking on a hundred fronts and its ultimate direction and meaning are as exciting as they are as yet unpredictable. The great process of U. S. daily journalism is fashioned along reportorial rather than interpretive lines. Therefore, the very nature of the newspaper business-as well as the diffuse and widespread nature of the phenomenon itself-has made...
...Corrie. New York yachtsmen did not know much about Corrie. He was a mysterious but affable gentleman, amply provided with funds, who professed an interest in the finer points of yachting and declared himself in the market for a speedy boat. After buying The Wanderer he was no longer seen around the club. Refitted and renamed, the tall bark, unmistakable for her clipper bow and sleek racing lines, was recognized by British and U. S. naval officers of the International Slave Patrol, insouciantly ferrying from the west coast of Africa to lonely U. S. inlets...