Word: whereases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last August, President Roosevelt ordered the cotton garment industry to down working hours from 40 to 36 per week, up wages 10%, beginning Oct. 1. Protesting that they could not afford the change, manufacturers hotly threatened to shut down rather than obey what amounted to a unique White House command...
Still another possible change in the lineup came to light yesterday when Jim Spring replaced Bill Lane at left tackle during a good part of the scrimmage. Spring was going very well, whereas Lane, who had improved a great deal in the previous sessions this week, was a bit off...
¶ Pondering deeply, its juridical comittee overruled Paraguay's quibble that the League was unable to intervene to settle the Chaco War because Article XV of the League Covenant referred only to disputes "likely to lead to a rupture," whereas Bolivia and Paraguay actually were at war.
With minor variations, these immemorial greetings were exchanged millions of times last week as thousands of U. S. college students, to be followed by thousands more this week and next, went back to their books. Prime news of the college world was that the five-year drop in enrollments seemed...
Such were some of last week's reports on the eve of a national textile strike (TIME, Sept. 3). The working population of two San Franciscos would approximate the number of persons engaged in the textile industry. But two San Franciscos would occupy only a few square miles, whereas the...