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...changes in wages and working conditions instead of 11 as would at first glance appear. . . . Past experience has demonstrated that an anthracite wage contract cannot be negotiated in a hurry." John L. Lewis, leader of the miners, replied: " We feel it unwarranted to anticipate that this conference cannot function and secure an agreement before Aug. 31." After the operators had twice broached the subject of a truce, the matter was dropped...
Stanley Baldwin: Our World, U. S. monthly publication, whose function it is 'to bear the torch of understanding in a world that is confused,' referred to me as Sir Stanley Baldwin...
...political situation is still in a state of confusion. The Presidency is unfilled, although Li Yuan-Hung continues to protest that he is President. The Government exists but does not function. The Tuchuns plot and prepare for war, which, it seems, cannot be long delayed...
Scopolamin (also known as hyoscin), the poisonous alkaloid anaesthetic derived from henbane, deadly nightshade and similar plants, has added another function to its established use in childbirth (TIME, May 12), if we are to believe Dr. R. E. House, of Ferris, Texas, whose paper on its value in revealing truth in criminal cases created a sensation at the meeting of the American Association of Anaesthetists, held in conjunction with the San Francisco sessions of the American Medical Association...
...Oxford was held the annual Rhodes dinner. Premier Stanley Baldwin and Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University, feasted among the assembled 300 scholars. It was the first time that a Prime Minister had ever attended the function...