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Reluctantly giving in to the pleas of their organizers and of James Moriarty, State Commissioner of Labor, 300 cooks and waitresses last night voted to report for duty as usual this morning. In view of gains made in yesterday's negotiations, they extended the deadline for a "satisfactory contract" from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DINING HALL STRIKE POSTPONED 36 HOURS | 3/14/1939 | See Source »

Broken communication lines, uprooted roads and rail tracks cut the area off from the rest of Chile. Not until amateur radio operators sent out terse pleas for help, did Santiago, where only slight tremors were felt, learn of the damage. At dawn a Government plane headed south to survey the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Worst Shake | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

Last week the six railroaders echoed the Splawn recommendations for repeal of land-grant freight rates for Government traffic, creation of a Transport Board to supervise all transport, creation of a special railroad court to handle reorganizations, loosening of RFC purse strings, and relieving ICC of the necessity of certifying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Carrier Cudgeling | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

While Labor's top leaders continued to jockey for advantage and hold off peace between C. I. O. and A. F. of L., a small voice piped up from the ranks last week. At Sacramento, Calif., 27 A. F. of L. and six C. I. O. local unions got...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Bottom Up | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

Mindful of German dislike of outside interference, they kept mum about their plans. At least two newspapers, the New York Times and the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, knew what the three Friends were about, and kept mum too. But the Philadelphia Record got wind of the story, telephoned numerous Philadelphia Quakers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Friends' Service | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

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