Word: truces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be remitted to subscribing operators. Last week Miner Lewis' coal strike was within 48 hours of going into effect and Senator Guffey's coal bill had not even emerged from committee. While Congress haggled, President Roosevelt called in Miner Lewis, drew headline credit for WINNING STRIKE TRUCE for another fortnight...
Although Julius Elias came out on top with 2,030,000 readers, everyone knew his Herald was losing money and nearly everyone predicted its circulation would slump heavily following the truce. Last fortnight Chairman Elias complacently told Odham's shareholders, in annual meeting, just what was what. Excerpts...
...interim head of NRA, to succeed S. Clay Williams, President Roosevelt appointed his man-of-all-work, Donald Richberg. At the same time he patched up a truce with organized Labor, William Green and John L. Lewis emerging from a White House conference all smiles...
...September 1837, having captured a Seminole chief. Major General Thomas S. Jesup persuaded Osceola to meet one of his officers under a flag of truce, treat for peace. Trustingly Osceola advanced with several chiefs and 198 tribespeople. All threw down their guns. When the parley was well started, General Jesup's soldiers leaped from the bushes, captured the Indians without a struggle. Osceola was imprisoned in Charleston. S. C.'s Fort Moultrie where he died after three months, officially of "a quinsy." General Jesup spent the rest of his life trying to justify his black treachery...
...Harbin before those unfortunate outbreaks of "banditry" which caused Japan to take that strategic city on the Chinese Eastern Railway (TIME, Feb. 22, 1932). Later it was perhaps Doihara who fomented enough "unrest" in Tientsin to excuse the bringing in of Japanese troops who imposed the humiliating Tangku Truce (TIME, June 5, 1933).Today, so great is Spy Chief Doihara's reputation that he can be as modest as Colonels Lawrence and Lindbergh. Toothily last week he smiled: "What have I been doing this year in Peiping, in Tientsin, in Shanghai, in Nanking and here in beautiful Hongkong? Really...