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Strikes, Strikes, Strikes- Shrewdly all over France the country's well-read and canny working class sensed that with Leon Blum & Friends warming the seats of power, proletarians need fear no interference from police if they chose to strike and make demands on their employers. Simultaneous but individual strikes had already begun on a large scale fortnight ago and many French employers were already knuckling down to their workers by granting 10% and 15% pay increases (TIME, June 8), but last week strikes spread and grew until Jean Frenchman, some 1,000,000 strong, was telling his employer...
TIME unusually well-read and well-informed ought to answer a question that bothers my humble mind void of any legal enlightenment...
...wise-man, "is the will of the strong." But it is often unseasonable to bring the truth to light, lest in the minds of lesser men, it dazzles, and becomes no longer a somatic observation, but a personal compulsion. Judge Charles S. Sullivan of the Charlestown court is doubtless well-read in concepts of justice, and with long experience on the magistrate's bench unquestionably has formulated his own position concerning this most difficult ethical problem. Before his judicial vision unfolds more than seven-hundred years of British Common Law. The pillars of his chambers rest upon it; Coke...
...only a fat comic section and well-read editorials distinguish the Sunday News. Its book reviews are written by Editor Patterson's attractive, air-minded daughter Alicia who, like her father, is honestly anxious not to be a drone...
...John L. Lewis is today the most intellectual and well-read leader in the whole labor field. He was not born to such graces 53 years ago in Lucas, Iowa. His father was a Welsh miner whose pioneer union activities forced the family to move to Illinois. At the age of 12 Son John, big of body, loud of lungs, went into the mines as a mule-driver. Later he mined silver in New Mexico, copper in Arizona, gold in Colorado. Smarter than most, he got a job as U. M. W. lobbyist at Springfield, 111. He still lives there...