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...panic when trade unionists crippled commercial activity in the San Francisco area for three days. Following a city-wide walkout last July, Terre Haute was under martial law for six and a half months. And last week the fourth general strike in U. S. history was called at Pekin, Ill. It lasted only 22 hours, affected less than 3,000 workers. Yet Strike Leader Frank S. Mahoney's conduct of this small slice of industrial war was sufficiently effective to cow 17,000 Pekinese for a day & a night...
...Shih, of Pekin, one of the leading philosophers and men of letters in China today, said that the Harvard scroll is one of the few fragments of a Dharani Sutra, printed in 975 and deposited in the cavities made in the bricks that were used to build the Red Pagoda. When the Pagoda fall to ruin in 1924 a few copies were found still in fairly good condition despite nearly ten centuries of burial. The fragment is about three feet long, and two feet wide, or approximately one-half its original length...
...receive their copies of the News, the Press, and the Plain Dealer. Citizens of New Orleans knew that a squabble about "company unions" among dockworkers was making rough & tumble news along the waterfront. Citizens of Hartford, of Buffalo, of St. Louis, of Houston, of Baltimore, of Indianapolis, of Pekin, Ill. all knew about strikes in their home cities. But the only strikes of last week which made front page news in every city in the land occurred in Toledo and Minneapolis. They had two things in common: 1) union recognition as the cause of the trouble; 2) violence and bloody...
...This week the Archaeological Institute of America meets in Washington for formal discussion.*Sinanthropus (Pekin man) is claimed to be the second oldest hominid discovered. The oldest: Pithecanthropus erectus (Java...
That first Metropolitan performance made people want to know all about unknown Lily Pons. Her father was an automobile pioneer who drove a Sizaire-Naudin car from Paris to Pekin, got lost in the Urals, starved in Tibet and had to be towed the latter part of his journey. Lily grew up in Paris where her mother did millinery. She studied piano at the Paris Conservatoire but when, during the War, she attempted to play Bach and Debussy for soldiers she usually ended by singing...