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...greatest progress made last week towards the settlement of the controversy between anthracite miners and operators (TIME, July 20 et seq.) was the scratching of seven days off the calendar. The present wage contract in the anthracite industry expires on Aug. 31 and, unless the miners, with their demand for higher wages, and the operators, with their demand for lower wages, reach a compromise by that date, a strike will begin on Sept...
...past week in Morocco (TIME, May 11 et seq.) began by a flat rejection by the French and Spanish of Abd-el-Krim's demand that peace negotiations must be preceded by unqualified recognition of the Riff area as an independent and sovereign State...
Ubiquitous Gutzon Borglum, cleaver of rocks, carver of mountains, talked to a reporter in Kansas City. He declared that the rancor of the Stone Mountain Controversy (TIME, Mar.. 2 et seq.) boiled no more within him, that he was now about to throw all his energies, his visions, his genius into a great project in-"North Carolina?" queried the reporter. "No, South Dakota," replied Borglum. With the sculptor was his son, Lincoln Borglum. "Tell the man about Bryan, Daddy," suggested Lincoln. Hill-Hammerer Borglum then spoke of William Jennings Bryan, related how, before he resigned as Secretary of State...
William Webster Ellsworth, of New Hartford, Conn., onetime (1913-16) President of the Century Publishing Co., is no close relative of Pole-flying Lincoln Ellsworth (TIME, June 1 et seq., SCIENCE). He does his exploring in U. S. schools. For 30 years he has been mounting school and university rostrums lecturing on topics "from [Playwright] Moliere to [Poet] Edna...
...blue tails, pushing them out on the water, poking them until they roared and soaring away in them high over the coastal glaciers and dizzy ledges where only little auks can live. Commander Richard E. Byrd of the naval aviation unit accompanying Explorer Donald B. MacMillan (TIME, June 22 et seq.) reported his trial flights entirely satisfactory. The party only waited for heavy fogs to lift before taking off for Axel Heiburg Land, where the first advance air base was to be made...