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...miners' demand for a 55-peso ($2.20) daily minimum wage had been rejected; the company's counter offer of a 15% pay rise (16?) had been turned down. A month's patient mediating by the Government had ended in failure. Last week, the coal miners of Lota stayed in their grubby little dirt-floor huts on the edge of the Pacific and the strike...
...common man, was so weary of cramming into broken-down trolleys, standing in line for tea, and going without a new shirt that he was apt to buy a cheap bottle of vino and say to hell with it all. Or, working at 75? a day in Lota's undersea coal mines where cave-ins occur almost daily, and living in a hillside of hovels where each year more babies die than are born, he turned to Communism...
...Happiness, by Therese Lewis and Lota Kriendler, for Helen Hayes. A cleverly strung idyl of parting and reconciliation, just what was in the tea leaves for Actress Hayes...
...first professional performance in Boston of Ibsen's 'The Lady from the Sea'" is the boast of the Repertory Theatre for the present fortnight. Duse delighted in the role of Ellida, the lady from the sea. It required every lota of her energy and that of her company to carry the emotional strain which the playwright puts upon his puppets. And now Repertory advertises a professional performance...
...Eliot and others who regard the phase as worth one lota (of anything) to be considered, imply that greater bodily strength or more masterful physique are of mortal value to the world, then I say that it is much easier to impart this to Jews by blood, than to wait centuries until Jews return to muscle-building trades. Surely, you who praise immediate action and results, efficiency in short, cannot scoff at such an effective (though ludicrous) plan as I offer: and besides, if I am not mistaken, Mendel's units would substantiate my argument on the results, physically...