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...Roosevelt man, Unionist Simpson declared: "Low farm prices are the cause of every business failure. But now the rising sun of a new day is here for Agriculture and a Democratic Congress will soon enact legislation to aid the farmer. The farmer won a wonderful victory in the election." Strikers. Closely associated with the National Farmers' Union is Milo Reno's Farmers Holiday Association which sponsored last summer's "farm strike" in Iowa. Striker Reno's threat: "The time has come for direct action. If Roosevelt makes a misstep we'll fight him just...
After seven days Walter Young, construction engineer of the Federal Bureau of Reclamation, notified the contractors to resume work, cleared the reservation of all who did not have passes signed by him. Company officials said no striker would be reemployed, said nothing about restoring old wages to workers on the dam named for the foremost U. S. wage-maintainer...
...Joseph Striker and Minor Watson as two of the suitors give creditable performances, while Harlan Briggs as the rejected fiance, a local banker, is genuinely comic. Mildred McCoy as the prospective mother just fails to produce a characterization; but is at least that far ahead of the rest of the ladies of the cast...
...Stoehr device, striker bars are so fixed to a piano's keys that when a key is touched a code impression is recorded on a motor-driven music-roll. Thus the most idle vagaries, nuclei for many a major opus, may be preserved. Added feature is a portable keyboard superimposed on the piano keyboard (baby grand or upright) which mechanically and instantaneously transposes music into any desired key. Composing and transposing devices may be used together. A great boon should "Music Writer" be to the cinema industry. Heretofore composition for synchronized cinema has been a labor of weeks. With...
...footnote was Letter-Writer O'Brien's, not TIME'S. And it was correct, not "hooey." "Dog-robbers" were called "strikers" often enough to get into Webster's Dictionary under "striker." U. S. Army officers were forbidden to use enlisted men as servants by Act of Congress July...