Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Will there be a suspension of anthracite mining on September 1? Everything depends on who will strike. If operators and miners do not reach a new agreement by that date there will be a "suspension of work," a sort of mutual strike. If the public " strikes " by refusing to buy anthracite, the miners and operators may be frightened from their strike. If President Coolidge "strikes" as the late Theodore Roosevelt did in 1902, no suspension of mining is likely. Who will strike first? Who will strike hardest...
...Coal Investigation Committee of the Massachusetts Legislature has threatened to advise all New Englanders to boycott hard coal and use soft instead. The latest development was a call from the United States Coal Commission asking miners and operators to meet with it in New York in an attempt to reach a settlement...
...some time there has been talk of having immigrants examined abroad, so that they can be admitted without question when they reach this country. Commissioner Curran has publicly urged this solution. Secretary of Labor Davis, who has been abroad investigating this plan, has declared he is doubly sure that it should be adopted...
...Swan. Many Americans consider Liliom the greatest play to reach our shores in many years. The Swan is by the same author, Franz Molnar. In Europe it is almost sacrilege to mention them in the same breath. The latter is considered incomparably his masterpiece. Eva Le Gallienne will play the lead...
William G. McAdoo, it is anticipated, will reach the Democratic Convention with far more votes than anyone else, but political prognosticators persist, as they have done for some time, in declaring that Mr. McAdoo will not be able to gain any votes once he enters the Convention -because all those who are not for McAdoo are very much against him. It follows, if that is true, that he cannot get the nomination, for which a two-thirds vote is necessary. Nevertheless, supporters of McAdoo are not downhearted. Recently Samuel B. Amidon, Democratic National Committeeman, sailed for Europe...