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...been warmly contested for the past three months, chiefly because they contain deposits of lead, copper, iron and coal. Biggest is a French-owned coal mine and this week, with the Leftists repulsed to a distance of twelve miles, miners resumed work and General Queipo de Llano radiorated louder than ever. Meanwhile, the widely advertised Aragon-Teruel offensive along the northeastern battle line from the French frontier to a point a little north of Valencia, over which both Rightists and Leftists were violently shadow-boxing fortnight ago (TIME, Nov. 1), was postponed for at least ten days because...
...beguile Lunt out of these funks. Farrell bounces in between acts with box-office reports, fanciful tales of extra chairs required in the balcony. Applause is Lunt's meat, disapproval his poison. During Reunion in Vienna in London he was making a curtain speech when some one called "Louder!"' Lunt thought the man said ''Lousy!" and was ready to quit the stage and go back to farming in Genesee Depot...
...intervals Il Duce's voice dwindled thinly. The excited crowd, eager to miss nothing, shouted: "Louder! Louder!" At one point Mussolini turned wearily to his aides, declared, "I am tired. If they wait until tomorrow they can read my speech in the newspapers." The superstitious lost no time in pointing out that it was the first time the Dictator had ever publicly admitted fatigue. Excerpts...
Strikes in the nation's silk mills usually raise a far louder racket than the whirring spindles and clattering shuttles which stop because of them. Feuds between employe and employer have almost always been bitter, sometimes bloody. Ever since last May, when energetic little Sidney Hillman, able, Lithuanian-born chief of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers (TIME, April 19), commenced drawing textile workers into C. I. O., signing up man after man in mill after mill, many a bystander wondered what would happen to whom when Mr. Hillman chose to call a strike, 1937 model. Last week, in throwing & weaving...
...Gordon Paterson was able to promise a full six-week season, running every night but Monday. Hungarian Victor Kolar, associated with the Detroit Symphony since 1919, was newly back from Europe and planned to conduct the whole series. At a later concert he planned to make the 1812 Overture louder than Tchaikovsky intended by setting off time-bombs instead of cannon...