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There was no fuss or picketing. The mighty U.M.W., long since as disciplined as a squad of marines, needed only a flick of John L. Lewis' shaggy black brows. In 23 states, 400,000 miners simply stayed home to spade their gardens, wet a line in a good sucker stream or sit back and warm a well-calloused toe on the kitchen stove. Mine operators sent all but a skeleton force of supervisors home...
...John A. Mackay spoke his concern over Catholic clericalism and its "vilification" of Protestant leaders (TIME, March 25). Last week New York's Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, president of the Federal Council of Churches, chose the Catholic stronghold of Boston to set forth the Protestant grievance in spade-calling terms. Excerpts...
...spade of history last week turned up a hitherto secret set of facts. For biographers of Internationalist Franklin Roosevelt, the great salesman of the United Nations Organization idea, the facts were somewhat awkward. They showed that when he co-authored the Atlantic Charter with Winston Churchill in August 1941, Franklin Roosevelt...
...three, the Iliad seemed to have the most immediate influence on TIME writing. Homer's "wine-dark sea" and "far-darting Apollo" were the parents of "jampacked bowl," "spade-bearded anthropologist" and many another space-saving phrase in TIME...
...afraid of the bishop's popularity to go too far. His thugs smashed the windows in the bishop's palace, ruined the Fischers' radish crop. But when the 'Gauleiter finally stormed over to the island in person, Paul killed him with a spade. "[Now] they will come for all of us," sighed the bishop. "Pray, bishop . . . ask for a miracle," cried the Frenchman...