Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Geneva conference on naval disarmament failed last summer because Britain and the U. S. could not agree as to why and how each should reduce its cruiser-building program. Britain held out for more cruisers than the U. S. thought seemed necessary...
Whether or not they know what the Industrial Workers of the World* are all about, the soft coal miners of Colorado have been listening to I. W. W. organizers since last summer when the "Wobblies" engineered a "sympathetic" strike in behalf of the late anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti. Colorado mine operators discountenanced the comparatively conservative United Mine Workers some time ago, introducing company unions to replace branches of the A. F. of L. subsidiary. Wages having been depressed below the Jacksonville scale, the I. W. W., one of whose favorite phrases is "Yours till the next big strike," saw a chance...
...Frank Norris, fundamentalist extraordinary, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Fort Worth, Tex., returned to national news dispatches last week by a means not even hinted at in his favorite Genesis. Save for local items, Dr. Norris had been out of print since a year ago last summer when he shot and killed one Dexter E. Chipps while the latter was calling on him (TIME, July...
...matrimony. He advocates a scheme whereby the parties contracting in marriage shall agree to separate for a certain number of weeks in each year, during which period each shall endeavor to reconstitute his or her own individuality. Mr. Adams points out that to the student there comes a summer respite from school and a winter respite from home; to the bricklayer there comes a Saturday afternoon; to the professor, a sabbatical year; to the husband....no release, world-without-let-up.. for wives and the poor are always with...
Early last summer the Division of Anthropology began to study films sent to the Museum by the Pathe Exchange, to determine whether the material was suitable for classroom use. From films such as "Nanook" for example, it was found that valuable illustrative material dealing with the physical types and customs of the Eskimos could be gained...