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...morning last week, Sheriff Oscar F. Adkins began to make a speech at the mill gates. He and several deputies had been up all night, warned by the mill officials of impending trouble. Across the street in front of the postoffice was a crowd of night shift workers bent on persuading the day shift not to go to work. The picketers were union people, men, women and children, members of United Textile Workers (subsidiary of the A. F. of L.). They had heard that, as the result of a strike last summer (TIME, Sept. 9), the company was transferring...
...international Labor day; Oct. 26, anniversary of the October revolution of 1917; Nov. 7, anniversary of the flight of Kerensky. Important is the fact that these five holidays are the only days when Soviet factories and offices will close, that though Russian workmen labor on a four-day shift, Russian industry operates on a continuous seven-day schedule...
...with the rear axle.* Of all Colonel Green's cars only one does he drive, a small electric storage battery car which he uses to go sight-seeing on his estate. Last week, however, he took the wheel of the new car which has no clutch, no gear shift, merely a brake and accelerator. So pleased was he that he ordered a similar model limousine and was reported planning to buy a touring car with a raised driver's seat in the rear...
Conservative Wall Street brokers last week were flabbergasted by a spirited defense of stock trading which, to many, signified a major sociological shift. Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, who could speak for a vast rural constituency, had declared stock trading on thin margin was not gambling, was therefore not immoral. One reason for his vigorous declaration in behalf of Wall Street stock business was that he himself had been caught playing the market through a bucket-shop firm, now closed...
Perhaps the best indication of the change can be seen in the shift of the spotlight from pitchers to batters. Once upon a time small boys wanted to grow up and be like Pitchers Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson. Now they want to grow up and be like Hitters George Herman ("Babe") Ruth or Rogers Hornsby...