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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over in 124 seconds by the clock.* Most of the 70,000 spectators, some of whom paid as much as $125 for a seat, were as bewildered as the challenger. Men who were lighting their pipes missed the whole thing. By the time those in the rear rows had jumped onto their chairs to see over the heads of those who had jumped onto their chairs in front, the match looked like a crap game. In the ring everyone seemed to be crouched on the canvas. Referee Arthur Donovan was counting-three, four, five-over the dazed challenger...
Fortnight ago, at the fourth annual convention of the Maritime Federation of the Pacific, Lundeberg's seamen accompanied by licensed officers and firemen walked out when the meeting refused to seat delegates of a Tacoma local of A. F. of L. longshoremen, Harry Bridges' bitter enemies. Also grieved because Harry Bridges has eagerly taken shoreside unions into the Maritime Federation, Lundeberg snorted: "We don't want any more cannery workers telling us what...
...Partei has said that it wants the Sudeten region given back to Germany. The Czechs grimly joke that if an anschluss were granted it would not be long until they were anschlussed, too. In point of fact, any dismemberment of Bohemia would be fatal to the Czechoslovakian Republic. Bohemia, seat of some 80% of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire's industries, is the industrial heart of the Republic. Effective and prosperous, it is the one island of conventional, economic well-being now in Central Europe.* Czechoslovakia is turning it over to nobody, and that is one reason why President...
Most surprising upset of the election was the showing of Dublin's Lord Mayor, Alfred Byrne, Fine Gael Party member. For 20 years dapper, little "Alf" has ruled the Dublin roost. Last week, his total poll barely gave him the third seat under proportional representation in Dublin's Northeast district as "Dev's" Minister for Posts & Telegraphs, Oscar Traynor, took the first, a Cosgravite the second...
...Each has eight all-room Pullmans, accommodations including snug roomettes, single and double bedrooms, compartments, drawing rooms. Each has two diners. The Century's, informal but sober, stick to rust tones and grey. The Broadway's, more splendiferous, have a speak-easy style midsection with side-seat nooks. Each has a bar-lounge, the Century's, mannish, leathery, the Broadway's, like an intimate cocktail room...