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...only question is what size that deficit will be." Earlier in the week rumors that British civil servants were planning to go on a stayin strike for more pay similar to those in France caused Chancellor Chamberlain to tell the House: "Civil servants who seek to indulge in such strike tactics render themselves liable to instant dismissal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Jul. 13, 1936 | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

Unheeding, 8,000 Paris slaughterhouse employes walked out. Clerks of all Paris' great department stores continued their "stayin strikes." The world-famed dressmaking houses had to close. Guests made their own beds in hostelries as various as the ultra-conservative Grand Hôtel and the swanksters' Hôtel Georges V. Outside Paris, for every strike settled when the week opened, another was declared. French trade union leaders were frantic, their supposed authority flouted and slipping everywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Arise and Slash! | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

...nearly seven years, he was willing to be interviewed by pointing to his little board, and to be photographed while doing it. Not every one was aware that this was not the God Man's first arrival in the U. S. Last December he quietly terminated an unpublicized stayin Harmon, N. Y., returned unostentatiously to India while his sponsor, a retired bookseller named Malcolm Schloss, began making plans for a triumphal reentry. Meher Baba, said Sponsor Schloss, would bring to the U. S. an "infinite state." In July he would break his silence with an internationally broadcast talk. What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God Man Still Silent | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

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