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Making a "shipping agent" of the Alcoa Line (which had been willing to arbitrate), the Commission set up its own hiring hall, began signing on men. At week's end, after a seven-day tie-up, two of the struck cargo vessels, the Alcoa Banner and the Alcoa Trader, steamed out of New York Harbor. Others would follow as fast as they were loaded and the Commission could man them...
...patriotic Pearl White, this man-sized stunt was not even a good day's work. Rough-riding heroine of The Perils of Pauline, The Exploits of Elaine, other serial thrillers of the youthful U.S. cinema industry, she had weathered a thousand terrible fates. With daredevil Ruth Roland (Ruth of the Rockies, Love and the Law, etc.) she was co-queen of the U.S. sequel-cinema in the days when To Be Continued Next Week left an agonizing seven-day gap in the lives of thousands of silent-serial fans...
CHICAGO--British Ambassador Lord Halifax, embarking on a seven-day test of "public sentiment in the American Midwest," tonight encountered "Send Halifax to Halifax" placards borne by pickets at his hotel...
Harvard's wandering President will return from his scientific researches and other activities in England some time next week following a recent seven-day postponement of his sailing day, his office reported yesterday...
...Benito Mussolini last week (see p. 21) welled ominous indications that a new campaign was about to be launched-possibly in a matter of a few days. The big question was where. The war, slowing to a lull in the Balkans and in Greece, bogging down in a seven-day sandstorm at Tobruch, flaming fitfully in the ragged weather over Britain, gave little clue. But the British, sure trouble was coming, thought they knew the answer (see below). Meanwhile the important military news of the week was the story of the battle of the Illustrious (see col. 2), an engagement...