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...Home Secretary, Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, announced sepulchrally last week that the British Coal Strike (TIME, May 10 et seq.) has cost more than the Boer...
Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Prince of the Roman Catholic Church, cast about recently for some august legal authority to draw up an indictment of the anti-Roman Catholic Calles Administration in Mexico (TIME, Feb. 22 et seq.). Roman Catholic William Dameron Guthrie, San Francisco-born attorney in the famed oleomargarine case before the U. S. Supreme Court, is now President of the Association of the Bar of New York City. With Paul D. Cravath (see p. 22) he is one of Manhattan's greatest corporation lawyers. Obedient to the request of Patrick Cardinal Hayes he sat down recently and wrote...
...Empire Premiers in England for the Imperial Conference (TIME, Nov. 1 et seq.) journeyed to Cardington, Bedfordshire, last week and were shown the giant air liners R-100 and R-101 now building under a shroud of mystery for the London-Cairo-Bombay air service scheduled to open next year (TIME...
...national loss resulting from the British Coal Strike (TIME, May 10 et seq.) was estimated last week to equal ?40 ($200) for every family in the British Isles. None the less the 750,000 miners who were still on strike last week, refused by a 100,000 majority to accept the settlement negotiated by their Executive Committee with Premier Baldwin (TiME, Nov. 15), after their delegates' congress had empowered the committee to make peace "on the best terms to be had." When the miners thus sensationally repudiated last week both their delegates' congress and executive committee, the committee...
...direct operator, needed a plant at Pittsburgh. The Judge was further irritated by President Schwab's behavior at Monte Carlo. Reports came that the very President of the U. S. Steel Corp., that "good" corporation, was reveling on the Riviera, that he was playing roulette, vingt-et-un, chemin-de-fer and baccarat for stakes of thousands of dollars. Mr. Schwab has never smoked. He has drunk sparingly. He has been a devoted husband. Yet he has always liked a pleasant game of cards. If he did gamble a bit at Monte Carlo, the stakes meant little...