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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The longstanding war in Illinois between the rival miners' unions makes Labor's current internecine strike look like a taffy-pulling contest. The Progressives maintain that John Lewis imported 10,000 miners to crush the revolt. The Progressives themselves on one occasion massed 15,000 for a march...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Verdict in Springfield | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

For Phil Murray, who is as good a student of heavy industry as any steelmaster, the occasion was not one for unrestrained celebration. He could and did declare: "In not one instance has any officer, national, sub-regional or lodge, ever authorized or fostered a strike in a mill under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Steel Workers' First | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

Dissension. That even these cautious tactics could not prevent dissension was the best evidence that Republicanism, muddled and frustrated as it may be, still has plenty of political vitality. In far off Vermont, grey, bespectacled Governor George D. Aiken, who has been boomed by his New England neighbors as another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: 100 Philosophers | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

According to Pravda, official newsorgan of the Communist Party, the counting of ballots cast in the Stalin District on the outskirts of Moscow, where the candidate was Stalin himself, was an occasion tense with emotion. "The first envelope is slit!" exclaimed Pravda. "All eyes are directed to it. The chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: 100% Victory | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

¶ The Ford Motor Co. has on occasion employed the technique of dismissing an executive by sending him and his family to Europe, greeting him on his return with an empty office. Although he got no trip to Europe, and his office furniture was left intact, William C. Cowling was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Personnel: Dec. 20, 1937 | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

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