Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oceanic begun by Princess Mary should appear on the seas the year after next and prove slower than the 50,000-ton Bremen, vexed White Star officials would have on their hands not an asset but a debit. Clearly the Bremen has started an international speed war between all lines. At Belfast last week potent Shipwrights Harland & Wolff understood that Baron Kylsant would demand that they build for the White Star Line not only the largest but the fastest liner in the world...
Spinning and weaving Lancashire went back to work, last week, after the most stupendous cotton strike since the War. A half-million sturdy craftsfolk had walked out rather than take a 12½% cut in their meagre pay (TIME, Aug. 12). Last week they trooped triumphantly back to the mills. Under a scheme set up by that sensible Scot, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, they would be paid the old wage, at least until the arbiters had made an award. When first news of this compromise reached such famed cotton towns as Manchester, Blackburn and Oldham, joyous craftsfolk paraded...
...From the northlands, southlands, eastlands and westlands you came at the call of my horn! I have buried this golden hatchet, the emblem of war, enmity and bad feeling. From now on the Scout symbol of peace is a golden arrow. I send you back to your homelands as ambassadors of peace...
...English mainland hove into sight. Journalist Von Wiegand radioed: "Land. It is Land's End. It is England. We have crossed the Atlantic. It is one o'clock in the morning, 42 hours and 42 minutes after we left Lakehurst. . . . A peaceful Zeppelin?over England?the first since the War. . . . All day long we have been trembling with excitement...
Norman Beasley, onetime Detroit newspaper man, was unwilling to see the volume completely unspiced. He knew that Henry Ford had promised, after the War, to return all his Wartime profits to the government; that he had supposed scruples against accepting War profits. The reporter wrote the Secretary of the Treasury, and was informed that "the Treasury records do not show the receipt of any such donation." The incident is glossed over. There is no mention of other scandals...