Word: unionization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME'S lamentable confusion of the British and the Bridgeport Smiths was called to the attention of TIME-readers by President Henry Sloane Coffin of Union Theological Seminary in the July 16 issue. TIME then said and now gladly repeats...
Among these were Liberia, Peru, Costa Rica, Santo Domingo, Panama, Uruguay, Cuba, Brazil, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Jugoslavia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Haiti, Latvia, Greece, Bulgaria, Lithuania and the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics...
When Zogu, a Mohammedan, took his coronation oath, he swore on both a Koran and a Bible. Observers saw in this an indication that he had not given up his reported desire to marry the Princess Giovanna of Italy. Signer Benito Mussolini is reported to desire the union. But King Vittorio Emanuele, Princess Giovanna's Roman Catholic father, objects...
Enticing, exciting and authoritative books on Soviet Russia are beginning to appear in quantities, notably from the presses of a new firm: International Publishers, Manhattan. Ready this week is International's 855-page Guide-Book to the Soviet Union ($5), the first such book to appear in English since Baedeker's Russia of 1914. Smart folk will note Moscow's Savoy Hotel, Leningrad's Hotel d' Europe, and that taxis have a fixed tariff in Moscow but must be bargained for in Leningrad. Map fiends will revel in hundreds of renamed towns, and the heretofore...
Along many a U.S. highway run parallel telephone and telegraph wires. Last week it appeared probable that future U. S. highways will have but one line of posts and wires. Reason: President Walter Sherman Gifford of A. T. & T. announced the signing of important nonexclusive contracts with Western Union. Telegrams may now be sent over long-distance telephone wires. Also at the service of Western Union for transmission of facsimile messages, is A. T. & T.'s telephoto system. To many, these contracts presaged the gradual scrapping of the Western Union plant and ever-increasing reliance on the service...