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Core of the Federation has always been its construction unions. Now the A. F. of L. membership base is shifting and widening. Biggest gainer-and biggest union in the Federation-is Dan Tobin's Teamsters, up 40,800 to 350,000. Coming up fast are the butchers, laundry workers, operating engineers, retail clerks, hatters. Tough, clever George E. Browne's stagehands (up 14,200 to 42,000) lost their fight to hog all theatrical performers (TIME, Aug. 21) but they have just won another and vital struggle to keep A. F. of L. supreme in Hollywood studios, downing...
...without treaty formalities? With only a few minutes to spare, the Soviet Minister to Estonia finally drove up to the Foreign Office, ratifications were exchanged and Foreign Minister Karl Selter expressed his perspiring relief. Next thing M. Selter knew, the Soviet Union calmly demanded an extra Red Army base in Estonia not mentioned in the Treaty...
...Lithuania. This gives Russia what she has long desired, a "Central Outlet" midway between her "Northern Outlet" via Murmansk and her "Southern Outlet" via the Dardanelles. Next Soviet thrust, Scandinavians devoutly hoped, may be in the Black Sea, possibly to persuade Rumania to "lease" at Constantsa a Soviet naval base...
Drunk with the new wine, success, the Chinese tried another daring thrust. In broad daylight eight bombers flew 450 miles from Chungking to Hankow, where they bombed the Japanese air base. They claimed to have destroyed 50 out of 180 Japanese planes, to have returned intact. Japanese admitted that bombs had hit stores of gasoline at their air base, "causing explosions that rocked the city...
...Dressed in colorful plaids ornamented with authentic Scotch paraphernalia, the R. O. T. C. Scottish Highlanders are giving an unusual color to Hawkeye gridiron pageants. The carefully selected group that makes up this unusual musical unit is composed of a drum major, 21 pipers, two base drummers, eight snare and five tenor drummers, and four lassies who dance the highland fling. Organized in 1935 by Col. George F. N. Dailey, the unit has won wide acclaim in the four short years of its existence...