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...look on the other wall, opposite the Crucifixion. Under a black, apocalyptic sky, a young miner lies on ground covered with coal rubble. Weeping women in violet robes at his head and feet avert their eyes as a group of men with picks descend into a smoky middle background. A headline of the Croatian newspaper on which the dead miner is sprawled reads: "The Immigrant Mother Raises Her Sons for American Industry...
...platter until her feet hurt and print dress was damp and dusty. She was Erica Darbo, the Scandinavian soprano whose U. S. debut set Cincinnati agog last February in Strauss' Salome, rehearsing for her first New York appearance. The night of the performance, in costume and against a background of stars and sultry violet, Miss Darbo gained full credit for the force and fury of her acting, but New Yorkers were not impressed with her wiry, imperfect voice, scarcely at its best in the open air. They thought her dance of the Seven Veils more realistic than graceful. Ivan...
Such is virtually the entire political background of the man who rates today with Governor Murphy of Michigan as one of the two most famed pro-Labor Governors of the U. S. That distinction does not rest on the fact that he has Tom Kennedy, secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers of America, as his Lieutenant Governor. It rests on George Earle's own popularity with the miners and steelworkers of Pennsylvania, on the fact that he was able to go out and effectively stump his State last autumn, helping to bring Pennsylvania into the Democratic column...
Against the lurid background of such facts as these Harold Denny wrote...
...background of this not very alarming slump were a number of developments highly important to Western Union Telegraph Co. One was the process of recovery within the company itself. In 1935 Western Union made $5,258,000 against $2,243,000 in 1934. Last year it made $7,199,120. But whereas operating expenses in 1935 were actually less than the year before, last year they increased $6,706,000, including taxes and interest. Reasons: 1) three successive wage restorations by which Western Union employes received an additional $1,300,000 in 1936; 2) higher costs of materials used...