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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What seemed last week's worst threat to Recovery was the prospect of an immediate strike of all bituminous coal miners. The hour & wage agreement which President Roosevelt helped negotiate in 1933, was due to expire at midnight, March 31. In Washington, operators' and miners' committees had been deadlocked over a new contract since mid-February. Operators stood firm for a one-year extension of the current contract. Miners, in the person of United Mine Workers' shrewd, hefty President John L. Lewis, wanted hours cut from 35 to 30 per week, wages upped from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Spring Song | 4/8/1935 | See Source »

Snapped onetime Premier Henri Jaspar: "What has Roosevelt accomplished? What? The worst thing about van Zeeland is that he is acting in good faith and is thoroughly imbued with American ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Devaluation No. 2 | 4/8/1935 | See Source »

...Interstate Commerce Committee last fortnight. Something of an authority on railroad mismanagement. Historian Beard was urging adoption of a pending Senate resolution authorizing a railroad investigation on the order of the Banking & Currency Committee's famed stockmarket probe. Even Jesse Jones, whose RFC millions have not prevented the worst succession of railroad failures since the days of Jay Gould, has admitted that the investigation "might be a good thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Management | 4/8/1935 | See Source »

...March sunlight gilded their breakfast tables, Washingtonians read in their morning papers that in about two weeks the Japanese cherry trees around the Tidal Basin would be in full bloom. The same day Kansans breakfasted by lamp light and read in their morning papers that one of the worst dust storms in the history of their State was sweeping darkly overhead. Damp sheets hung over the windows, but table cloths were grimy. Urchins wrote their names on the dusty china. Food had a gritty taste. Dirt drifted around doorways like snow. People who ventured outside coughed and choked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Land in the Sky | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

Last week the hero of that worst Arctic tragedy in U. S. history was informed that Congress had voted him its Medal of Honor. Thus to Major General Adolphus Washington Greely, a week before his gist birthday, went the recognition for which he had vainly waited half a century. Lieut. Greely returned from the Arctic to find a civilian upped to the captaincy which he had expected. Quietly plugging ahead, he distinguished himself by laying thousands of miles of telegraph and cable wire in the Philippines, China, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Alaska, directing Army relief work in San Francisco after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Old Man's Medal | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

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