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...down the shaft when his fellows abruptly walked out above ground. Because steel production had been booming for weeks, necessitating coal mine operation at full capacity, strikers had plenty of cash in their pock ets. They walked out as if on a summer spree, full of noise and good cheer and enthusiasm. Governor Pinchot ordered guardsmen to Fayette County to help keep the peace (TIME, Aug. 7). By last week the strike had closed every Frick mine in the county. Other companies were beginning to feel its pinch. Some mines of great Pittsburgh Coal Co. had to shut down...
...Scout flags of all nations represented were blessed by Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and Mohammedan dignitaries. In the reviewing stand appeared Sweden's chief scout and presumptive future king, Prince Gustav Adolf, 27, eldest son of Crown Prince Gustav Adolf, 50. Then, as Scouts set up a mighty cheer, out on two prancing chargers rode B.P. and His Serene Highness Admiral Horthy, Regent of Hungary (whose 20-year-old pretender "King Otto" much resembles an apple-cheeked Boy Scout). "Hungary welcomes you!" cried Regent Horthy. "And Hungary welcomes the father of scouting, Lord Baden-Powell. I hope you will...
...crowd, nervously exhilarated, began not to cheer but to laugh at Perry's nervous blunders. Merlin, with a strange assurance, as though sure of bringing to pass one of those magical victories that have kept the Davis Cup in France so often before, held up his hand for silence. Working hard now and measuring every point, playing himself slowly back to his best game, Perry won the next two sets 8-6, 6-2. From 1-4 in the fourth Merlin brought the score up to 4-all, then 5-all. Perry, in danger now of slipping back into...
...mighty cheer went up from a crowd of 1,000, mostly Negroes, at Atlantic City Airport one day last week as the good airplane Pride of Atlantic City floated to earth. Out of the cabin stepped two stalwart Negroes, C. Alfred Anderson, transport pilot, and Dr. Albert E. Forsythe ("The Flying Dentist") who holds a private license. They had just completed the first flight across the U. S. and back ever made by Negroes. Elapsed time: 11 days...
...first Negro prima donna to sing in a U. S. opera house. Last week, two days before her 30th birthday, she did so as Caterina Jarboro with Alfredo Salmaggi's Chicago Opera Company in Manhattan's vast Hippodrome. Dusky Harlemites, high and low, turned out to cheer her triumph and theirs...