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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...granting a subsidy had irredeemably passed. ¶ Perused with interest garbled reports of a general conference of Miners' Federation delegates in London at which A. J. ("Emperor") Cook, bitter-ender Communist secretary of the Miners' Federation, reputedly admitted that the miners may have to accept a lower wage than that for which they are fighting but enjoined them to a last ditch fight to retain the seven-hour day. The Seven Hours Act was temporarily abrogated by the Eight Hours Act (TIME, July 12 et seq.) which is the keystone of Premier Baldwin's anti-strike program...
...people of Mexico are nominally almost wholly of the Catholic persuasion. Among the lower classes, however, the Holy Trinity and the Virgin are identical indiscriminately with early pagan gods and goddesses, and a sort of hodge-podge religion has resulted...
From a bathing house in Roubaix, France, emerged one Mme. Cuvelier Desprez, 87, moving with the cramped, deliberate shuffle of the very old. About her wasted body, peaked shoulder, shriveled rib, a one-piece bathing suit hung in folds from whose lower regions projected the wishbone straddle of her thighs. Her face was lean, brown, seamed with a thousand lines. The bathing attendant tapped her on the shoulder. "Be careful, my old one! Not so near the edge. One slip and- plumps-you would be in, hein?" Mme. Cuvelier turned on him the point of a yellow tooth. "Holy...
...rains returned, the rivers rose again, and the dikes and bridges, barns, houses and fields of grain in fat Czecho-Slovakia and lower Hungary continued to be inundated and swept away during a fourth week of natural catastrophe (TIME, July 19, INTERNATIONAL). Farmers pled piteously with their governments to "do something." Peasants cursed and blamed the ill-omened new radio stations. Governments lamented, spoke dolefully of sunspots as the cause of disastrous weather. Afflicted mankind was miserable...
Died. Dr. Otto Ludwig Wiedfeldt, 55, former German Ambassador to the U. S. (who failed to lower his embassy flag at the death of Presi dent Wilson), director-general of the Krupp Works; at Essen...