Word: worke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...programs. There are no solo bows, no bows at all until the end of the play, when the entire cast ap pears. Emphasis is on the play, with known and unknown actors striving and sharing alike except as to salary. The result of these policies, maintained by hard work and patience, has been the discovery of the fact that the U. S., including the hinterland, will clap hands for fine drama as loudly as it does for good circuses, jazz bands, leg shows. Rockbound is about a salty family caught in the fishnets of circumstance on the Maine coast...
...labors of Mr. Morgan and Mr. Young. Said a member of the Japanese delegation when things looked blackest last week, "I am deeply sorry for our chairman. Mr. Young has done everything a man could possibly do to make for success. It is a shame that his wonderful work should be branded with defeat. He deserved something far, far better!" Allied Bulls Baited. The offer made by Dr. Schacht, which seemed to brand FAILURE upon all concerned last week, was in fact a pair of alternatives. The Allies could take their choice, and in either case they would...
Representatives of every nation of any consequence, including the U. S. and Soviet Russia, met in Geneva last fortnight to take up the work of the League of Nations Preparatory Disarmament Commission where it was left last year (TIME, April 2, 1928). Chairman was a Dutchman, gruff, able, patient Jonkheer J. Loudon. Presently the delegates were asked to express individually their approval or disapproval of the following general principles: 1) Appreciable reduction by all nations of their existing armaments; 2) Acceptance by each nation in proportion to its size of a proportional degree of disarmament; 3) Adoption of a mathematical...
...city he received thousands of gold rubles to promote the General Strike. Just now the fortunes of "Emperor" Cook are at considerably lower ebb; and as Secretary of the Coal Miners' Federation he very thankfully waits upon the Lord Mayor's Fund, administered to keep Out-of-work miners from starving. Last week the Lord Mayor of London, well-fed Colonel Sir John Edward Kynaston Studd, gave a luncheon at Mansion House and at the speakers' table sat both Edward of Wales and "Emperor" Cook...
...York, last week, he issued this brief, important statement to the press: "Throughout the German republic there is a feeling of unrest and dissatisfaction among the laboring classes. If this feeling brings about the expected strikes in many industries, 3,000,000 persons will be thrown out of work, adding a severe problem to a nation which, without the strikes, is endeavoring to absorb the 2,000,000 already unemployed. "Germany is looking to neighboring Russia as a means of economic preservation, for should trade with that country be developed to a considerable extent, many...