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Uncle Sam says the idea of the system is to give more people work and raise wages, yet he fires his own employees and lowers the wages of those he keeps. At Fort Sam Houston, Tex., he has fired between 50 and 75 skilled workmen who made $100 to $125 per month, and has supplanted them with unskilled soldiers at $17.50 per month. These men are now unemployed, many of them having been faithful civil service employees of Uncle Sam for from ten to 20 years...
...fourth she sent for two vans. Into the first, workmen loaded her collection of paintings. When they began to load heavy furniture into the second van, the three detectives suddenly popped out of the basement, stopped the loading. One detective brought a policeman. Coolly Gladys of Marlborough appeared, told the movers to resume work. The policeman scratched his head. The detectives sent for a lawyer. The Duchess sent for hers. After a long conference between Duchess, lawyers, detectives and policeman, the vans drove off. Gladys of Marlborough walked out of her house, down the street to the Carlton Hotel...
...with lightning's violence. Last week in Chicago President Compton announced that shortly the machine would be ready to operate. In preliminary workouts it produced six million volts, would have produced ten million had not the difference diffused into the metal walls of Col. Green's hangar. Workmen now are insulating those walls, and Robert J. Van de Graaff (who designed the apparatus) and Lester Clare Van Atta and E. W. Samson (who collaborated) are busily completing a special kind of x-ray tube through which the volts may shoot to shatter atoms. Atoms must be broken...
...squared off at his bare white wall in the RCA lobby. Tickets were issued to watch him do his daily stint. Art students, businessmen and Communists bought tickets as Rivera slowly spread paint down over the wall in a characteristic composition made up of huge, chunky units. Rockefeller Center workmen came free. Painting directly on wet plaster as in all true fresco, Rivera put on the wall the essentials of his submitted and approved sketches. Nelson Rockefeller came too to watch, told Rivera he liked the fresco. On May Day Rivera came to the head of the Leader, made...
...German workmen woke from the heady excitement of their first Nazi May Day last week (TIME, May 8) to find their trade unions snatched from under them. Catholic unions announced complete allegiance and subservience to the Hitlerites and were accepted as good converts. Socialist unions with a total membership of over 4,000,000 men were not given the chance. Though the Socialist union published a formal statement several days earlier offering full co-operation with the Government, important young Storm Troopers raided their headquarters throughout the Reich and marched 50 union leaders off to jail. Up popped Dr. Robert...