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...have determined that the $100 minimum wage, even with the large crews which we carry, leaves us a substantial profit, and all talk that this is a blow to the American merchant marine or other shippers is bunk. The big shipping companies do not pay decent wages merely because they do not have to. They are interested in keeping their men away from conditions in which they might enjoy the advantages that good wages bring. They want their sailors to remain in ignorance of the better things in life in order that there will be no demand for better wages...
...Japanese should continue to voice our sorrow over this unnecessary blow to the nation's prestige, but refrain from heated action, as this would only make America more obdurate and defeat our purpose...
...Slattery seemed puzzled. In the second round, there was another flurry from Shade. Slattery was obviously taking his time to get the range. In the third round, Shade crouched lower. He came out of his corner almost on his belly. From this position he started a blow which began in the resin of the floor, described a long overhand arc, terminated on the jaw of James Slattery. Down he went, his faun smile gone, struggled up again, went down again, struggled up again, dropped again. Out of his corner flew a great white towel...
...year ago, occurred the abominable assassination of Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti (TIME, June 25 et seq.), which shook the kingdom to its foundations and struck such a blow at the prestige of Benito Mussolini that he is only now recovering from...
...active police became still more active, discovered a third bomb, in- tended to blow up the royal train as it passed through a tunnel on its return journey to Madrid. Fourteen arrests were made, but each of the prisoners denied all knowledge of the plot...