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...centre of the U. S. Sponsor for the walkout was William Zebulon Foster's radical National Textile Workers' Union whose agents and inciters took such woe and bloodshed to the cotton textile industry in and around Gastonia, N. C. two years ago (TIME, April 8, 1929 et seq.). Paterson's hard streets are historically fertile soil for labor disturbances; twice within the last decade have they been harrowed by major textile strikes...
Perhaps motivated by unselfish desires to help customers, perhaps fearful lest their affairs be dragged into the open as have those of Cities Service Co. (TIME. July 20 et seq.) last week the Insull power, light and gas properties in Kansas announced voluntary rate reductions. The North American Light & Power group reduced electric rates by 15% in 219 towns, gas rates 14% in 52 towns...
When New York City's public was convinced that Harry Stein and Samuel Greenberg were guilty of the much-publicized killing of Vivian Gordon (TIME, March 9 et seq.), a Bronx jury three weeks ago chose to believe alibis presented by the accused men's sisters rather than the testimony of one Schlitten, who said he had driven the car while Harry Stein throttled the girl...
...case under consideration was docketed as Ex Parte 103. It contained the petition of Class I railroads in the U. S. for a horizontal (i.e. blanket) 15% freight rate increase (TIME, May 18 et seq.). The first hearings were called last week for the carriers to show that they were in desperate financial straits and needed as an emergency measure more revenue to keep out of bankruptcy. That the roads had reached an economic crisis was repeated in a dozen different ways by a dozen different witnesses put on the stand by Henry Wolf Bikle who, as the carriers...
...Fascist retort. He was disturbed by the extent of the controversy which has raged ever since Lavoro Fascista charged editorially that the Vatican's 15,000 Catholic Action clubs were meddling in politics and the Vatican newspaper, Osservatore Romano, made it a political war (TIME, June 8 et seq.). The Pope was more disturbed by the manner in which his encyclical had been interpreted as a challenge. After he had pored over Mussolini's retort, he let it be announced that he felt relieved. The Vatican spokesman said...