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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...working people of the United States will observe with keen interest this experimentation in the use of the sympathetic strike as a means of bringing about the settlement of a wage controversy in a single industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Phenomenon | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

Pursuing its policy of wiping out the non-Mexican clergy (TIME, Feb. 22, et seq.), the Calles Government notified Archbishop Ruiz of Michoacan that all churches in that state will shortly be seized by the secular arm for use as schools, libraries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Notes, May 17, 1926 | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

...most conversationally glittering that Wilde wrote. The genre is well described in a book* just published which purports to contain spirit messages direct from the author: "My plays were scarcely drama. They were more the weaving of character into a pattern; and this, with the use of language which I chose in each instance, to illustrate the surface of the human being. I did not propose to go deeply into the heart, as it is called-that organ, which is so frequently maligned, did not interest me." In this book Author Wilde also describes his entrance to London, "this huge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: May 17, 1926 | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

...fleet to British operators, caused concern to U. S. shippers. They felt that this sale- of the British-registered but U. S. operated and underwritten White Star line's 500,000 gross tonnage- meant further disintegration of the U.S. merchant marine. It may be that President Franklin will use the sales proceeds to wipe out an International Mercantile Marine indebtedness of almost like amount or, and more probably, to buy up certain U. S. Shipping Board vessels, including perhaps the Leviathan, and thus really strengthen the national merchant marine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Merchant Marine | 5/10/1926 | See Source »

...Named for Count Zeppelin after his visit to see whether his airships might not use Spitzbergren as a northern base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Polar Pilgrims: May 10, 1926 | 5/10/1926 | See Source »

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