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...three weeks (TIME, July 20 et seq.) the miners had been presenting their case for a 10% wage increase and the check-off (collection by the operators of union dues from miners' wages). The operators' representatives had sat and listened, merely shaking their heads "No." Then John L. Lewis, President of the Miners' Union, called over the heads of the operators' representatives to Samuel D. Warriner, who in previous years negotiated for the operators, saying in effect: "These negotiators of yours are only stalking horses. Come here yourself and we'll talk business with...
...newspaper correspondent, writing from Wazzan behind the French lines, thus began his daily despatch on the Moroccan War (TIME, May 11, et seq.) : "One requires no map in order to follow operations in this important sector. One can install oneself comfortably-except for the flies, whose buzzing might be taken for Abd-el-Krim's air service -on a shady cafe terrace and drink cool beer while a friendly French officer explains the situation with a magnificent panorama of mountains stretched out before one for orientation...
Down the Champs Elysees, to ihe profound astonishment of Parisiens, came M. le capitaine et Mme. Delingette, in a chugging six-wheel automobile, "bespattered with sand from the Sahara Desert, clay from the Niger, black earth from the Congo and yellow mud and sand from the South African veldt...
...Moscow, last week, 6,500 cadets received commissions in the Red Army. To celebrate this event the new War Lord Frunse, successor to deposed Leon Trotzky (TIME, May 18 et seq.) issued a special order to the Army and Navy...
Smiling quizzically, speaking softly, deprecating demonstration, Air Pilot Lincoln Ellsworth, sole American to accompany Explorer Amundsen of Norway on his dash from Spitsbergen to the North Pole (TIME, June 1 et seq.), trod again his home shores last week. His footnotes to the story of the flight that stuck in icy hummocks 157 miles from the goal...