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...Next day milder "followup" shocks were felt as far south as Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tremors in Yalta | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

Last winter Mary Norton and the Labor Committee set to work producing a new bill. Essentially milder than its original, it called for a 25?-an-hour minimum wage, a 44-hour maximum week, graded to a 4O?-an-hour minimum over the next three years and a 40-hour maximum over the next two. However, it lacked the regional differential which had been its predecessor's concession to Southern industry's cherished conviction that climatic and racial conditions below the Mason & Dixon line entitle its workers to a lower wage scale. Consequently no one was much surprised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Aunt Mary's Applecart | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...people, some of them women with children in their arms, lengthened outside the city's relief stations. At two stations, applicants sat down, refused to budge for two days. At another a dozen or so formed a brass band to entertain their fellows. Said welfare office Supervisor Delia Milder: "They are sort of desperate now. They have been very tense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: May in Cleveland | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

Among the big figures of the modernist musical movement, many, including Stravinsky, Schönberg, and Prokofieff, are today writing a much milder and more melodious type of music than they were in modernism's heyday. In a current article in Musical America Atonalist Ernest Krenek sighed for the good old days of musical revolution. Wailed Composer Krenek: "Moderns are saying atonality is passe. Most contemporary music is reactionary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Reaction | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...bridge. However, after 73-year-old Mr. Isoo Abe, leader of the Social Mass Party, had had his jaw broken by ruffians and retired to bed, Admiral Suetsugu permitted the police to give deputies opposed to the bill some protection, and the more inflammatory posters were pasted over with milder ones. To prove that His Imperial Majesty's Government was not asking anything unreasonable of the Diet, Government newsorgans came out prematurely (a month before even the U. S. House had passed the big Navy bill) with the screamer: "AMERICA PASSED GENERAL MOBILIZATION...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: National Mobilization | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

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