Word: northern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Irish Republican Army, Ireland's most fanatical antiRoyalist group, have long been a headache to the Government of Northern Ireland. According to Belfast's police, they staged the burnings, beatings and bombings specially arranged for the State visit of King George & Queen Elizabeth (TIME, Aug. 9). They were accused last week of another outrage: attacking a man's home when his person is not available...
...trains with safety. Train lengths have increased in recent years but employe casualties have decreased. In 1923, when freight trains averaged 40 cars in length, crew casualties numbered 36,238, but in 1935 with train length up to 46 cars casualties were down to 5,996. The Duluth, Missabe & Northern R.R. in Minnesota operated almost 7,000 trains of more than 70 cars over a period in which not a man was killed, a performance for which the D. M. & N. received the Harriman Silver Medal Award...
...uses this situation for the most devastating study of mob violence and sectional hatred the screen has yet dared to present. There are three major suspects in the case of Mary Clay: the school's principal, the Negro janitor and Robert Hale (Edward Norris), a young Northerner who taught Mary's class and who was seen coming out of the building after the crime. To District Attorney Griffin (Claude Rains), the principal is too big a personage and the janitor too small, to serve his purpose of a spectacular conviction. Reporter Bill Brook helps him pin the crime...
...company town of Alcoa, Tenn. Promptly dispatched to Alcoa were three companies of National Guardsmen. The Alcoa strike was called last May by the A. F. of L.'s Aluminum Workers of America in an attempt to end the wage differential between Aluminum Co.'s Northern and Southern plants (a 63?-per-hour base rate in Pennsylvania as against 43? in Tennessee). The union's offer to arbitrate was turned down flat by the company. At week's end after William Green dispatched his personal aide, Francis T. Dillon, to investigate, the Alcoa local voted...
...years of bickering and battle between Jews and Arabs in Palestine is to carve them up into separate countries. Protestant and Catholic Irish were thus carved asunder in 1921, and although objectors to this drastic British measure did not stop at murder, strife has subsided between Protestant Northern Ireland and the Catholic Irish Free State (see col. 2). The Cabinet last week sent Minister of Colonies William Ormsby-Gore directly over to the House of Commons to announce the partition of Palestine as a general principle, ordered released within a few days the 400-page report on Palestine...