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...suspension we advise that proper instructions will be issued to our membership, as an agreement covering this subject can be consummated with the representatives of the anthracite operators. Please hold yourselves in readiness to put our policy with respect to maintenance work into effect as soon as possible after receipt of its contents...
...LAMP?Mary Roberts Rinehart?Doran $2.00). Able Mrs. Rinehart places herself at the center of consciousness of a scholarly professor who is deeply agitated by what seem to be the posthumous performances of his late asthmatic, or strangled, uncle. Between seances, telepathic messages, furniture upheavals and the receipt of "quaint ciphers, he (she) writes a diary. Hounds bay, doors crash, mysterious lights shine on headlands and creep under beds. Uncle's ghost marches in the alumni parade, sheep are slaughtered, four people die quite violently. A very devil of an uncle, yet you and the professor can never be sure...
...latest unemployment figures showed that 1,299,700 persons were in receipt of doles. This number was greater by 19,330 than the previous week and 295,918 more than a year ago. Normally there are 500,000 constantly out of work in Britain, and, taking into consideration that 200,000 workers are now entitled a dole which they were not last year and therefore did not figure in the official list of unemployed persons, the actual increase over the pre-War situation is 700,000 and the real increase over last year's figures is less than...
...receipt of a circular urging subscription to your publication and it has recalled for me memory of an incident which must preclude possibility of my subscribing to TIME...
...small head, thin hock, deep chest, round blue hoof; moreover, he was being ridden in the famed $50,000 Belmont Stakes (Belmont Park, L. I.) by Earl Sande, who has been called, not without justice, "world's greatest jockey." So it seemed curious that obliging gentlemen with receipt-books were willing to offer $10 to every $1 of yours that Prince of Bourbon would not win the race. But if you thought that American Flag, for instance-swift son of Man o' War-or By Hisself, another son of that famed sire-were faster than Kentucky Cardinal, Marconi...