Word: matter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Little does it matter to spurned Manchukuo that many a chancellery believes that El Salvador first recognized the puppet state by mistake. The story goes that on the day that Henry Pu Yi became Emperor Kang Teh, his Minister of Foreign Relations sent an announcement to all foreign offices. Since the League of Nations, to which El Salvador then belonged, had passed a resolution binding all League members to nonrecognition, the foreign offices of these nations ignored the announcement. But in El Salvador a sleepy under secretary in the Foreign Ministry, assuming that diplomatic courtesy demanded a reply, answered with...
Main approach to the problem of utilization of solar energy has been study of green plants, which in their own simple and mysterious way utilize the energy of sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water into food. Chief agent in this process of photosynthesis is chlorophyll, the green coloring-matter in leaves, which acts as a catalyst, speeding up the transformation, but undergoing no conversion itself. Since chlorophyll is not effective as a catalyst when extracted from the plant, chemists have been unable to study its action. It is composed of two separate pigments, blue-green chlorophyll A and yellow...
...were Millet's Woman with a Rake, lent by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Monet's Les Déchargeurs de Carbon. The artists ranged from such ununionized souls as Academician Jonas Lie and Merrymaker Doris Lee to Proletarians Joe Jones and Mervin Jules. The subject matter of Labor was conceived generously enough to admit a painting of industrial buildings by Classicist Charles Sheeler. Even more varied was a display of 180 prints and drawings, from the 15th Century to the present, from which visitors could get an idea of how differently Labor looked to Pieter Bruegel...
...institute a pay cut on the Post, without colliding with A.F. of L. unions in its mechanical departments, or the American Newspaper Guild, whose contract with the Post was the first to be signed in Manhattan. By persuading the A.F. of L. unions to let their men treat the matter as individuals rather than as unionists, Publisher Stern got a "10% "kickback" out of 97% of the Post's mechanical employes.* They agreed to lend the Post 10% of their pay checks indefinitely, the loans to be repaid at 2% interest when, to the satisfaction of an employe committee...
...means willing to consider 10% loans an individual rather than a union matter, Guild leaders stood up to Publisher Stern even when, last fortnight, he threatened to close down the Post in 48 hours. Then Mr. Stern did some telephoning. That he telephoned President Roosevelt, told him he was tired of running a New Deal organ at a loss and needed help, has been denied. But Publisher Stern did telephone John L. Lewis, to whose C.I.O. the Guild belongs. In subsequent telephone conversations with Guild officials in Manhattan, Mr. Lewis muttered something about "the White House." He advised the Guild...