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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mabel Walker Wiliebrandt is a Mrs. She is also an Assistant Attorney General in the Department oi Justice. Sometimes she has been called "the inevitable Mrs. Wilie-brandt" because she speaks at so many conventions of women's organizations. But it is not her own love of speechmaking and prominence which brings her so often to the plat- form. She is invited there because she is one of the few women who occupies a public position of impor-tance-and occupies it capably...
...arrested and condemned to be shipped as a political slave to Barbados or Virginia. David Scott, however, was a lad of spirit, decided against the King and the King's men, broke jail, was not recaptured for some time. Sent to Virginia, he worked in the forests and fields oi the new country in a capacity only nominally above that of the African slaves, his coworkers. Again he escaped to a ship in Norfolk Harbor, which proved unfortunately to be herself a slaver. The captain, happily, was his kinsman. Thus, David Scott rose to be a captain in the slave...
...present life of the "Master oi Doom...
...prevent industrial disputes or to marshal all the forces of the unions in aid of any union which it supports. Thus, if a union declines to accept the ruling of the Council, it is to be reported to the next Congress and deprived of support from the rest oi the unions. On the other hand, if the Council gives advice which is followed and a strike cannot be avoided, then a general strike is to be called to help the striking trade...
Geraldine Farrar's modernized version oi Bizet's masterpiece, Carmen (TIME, Apr. 21), will open at Portsmouth, N. H., on Sept. 26. After a tour of New England, it will enter Manhattan, surely with many triumphal trumpet-blares. The preliminary fanfare announces that this will be different from all other Carmens, including even Miss Farrar's own Metropolitan-Carman and her cinema-Carman. It will be an "operatic fantasie," with the score treated in a distinctly novel fashion and the whole production "completely severed from all operatic tradition...