Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Annually on John Mitchell Day the miners of Pennsylvania do homage to his memory at his marble statue in Scranton. Last week on John Mitchell Day, every miner in the State took the day off, as usual. Pennsylvania's Republican Governor Arthur Horace ("Breaker Boy") James, who boasts that he used to be a miner himself, celebrated the day with an incredible political blunder. He let subordinates fire John Mitchell's 46-year-old son, Richard, a $2,100-a-year clerk in the Department of Property and Supplies. By nightfall, thousands of miners were petitioning for Richard...
...professionals, many books have been written. But the man who just likes to sing in the bathtub or twang a lick on the jew's-harp has never had a book to tell him where to go from there. Such a book was published last week by long-nosed "Tune Detective" Sigmund Spaeth...
...juicy answer . . . than a dozen learned professors sitting trembling on the wet trouser leg of facts. . . . Oh-and he must be a bachelor. Then we shall get the women. . . ." They study the man at the other table, then call out to him: "HITLER! HITLER! . . ." Such was the opening this week of a new propaganda serial staged by British Broadcasting Corp. Its name: The Shadow of the Swastika. Its story: the careers of the Nazi bully boys from beer hall to the rape of Poland...
...Heard last week over many a British loudspeaker: "You people are so safe, you imagine. We know where your ARP stations are, but our bombers could get you before you got there!" The wave length was Hamburg's but Britons had a vile suspicion that the broadcasts came from "somewhere in England," were perhaps a belated Nazi-planted reply to the irrepressible German Freedom Radio (TIME...
...Three weeks ago Italy intended to ship the art treasures she had shown at the San Francisco Golden Gate International Exposition directly home (TIME, Oct. 30). Last week Italy changed her mind. Husky, enthusiastic Director Daniel Catton Rich of the Chicago Art Institute announced that the entire group would be shown there for two months beginning Nov. 17. Chicago's art lovers had worked on Chicago's Italian-Americans, who worked on grey-mustached Prince Ascanio Colonna, Italian Ambassador to the U. S., who worked on his Government...