Word: maye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Peace came suddenly last week to Happy Valley, Tenn., where a strike of some 5,000 textile workers in the Bemberg & Glantzoff artificial silk mills at Elizabethton had dragged its way through six unhappy weeks (TIME, May 27). The strike ended when President Arthur Mothwurf of the mills agreed to take back striking workers, discuss their grievances, appoint a new personnel director. Peacemaker: Miss Anna Weinstock, 28, conciliator from the U. S. Department of Labor...
...Lloyd George won't beat us?Ramsay won't defeat us?but Apathy might!" was the slogan of a Conservative poster widely displayed through Britain's general elections campaign (TIME, May 27). Last week, as the campaign closed, the word Apathy was repeated again and again by political writers...
...truth is that there is no leadership of any kind in this election struggle. . . . Some of the new candidates may have a touch of inspiration, but so far they have not made themselves heard above the market place...
...Punch's circulation may be considered so widespread that any trace of partisanship would be bad business...
...Owen Seaman, who is approaching 70 and has edited "the most noted humorous magazine in the world" for 23 years, may consider the matter of Britain's next Prime Minister unimportant...