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...appealed to the State Legislature, pleading that the women were given a 20-minute rest period, not docked for it. Last March, led by Corliss Lament, son of Morgan Partner Thomas William Lament, 52 Harvard alumni wrote an open letter to the University, asking that the women be paid 2?? per hour back wages over the whole period. Harvard refused. Alumnus Lamont then organized the Harvard Scrubwomen Fund, raised $3,880, portioned it out last Christmas to the scrubwomen...
...road with $20,000,000 new working capital. But business depression has cut Seaboard's net in the first nine months of 1930 to $4,527,000 against $8,479,000 in that period last year. Seaboard common has dropped from $12½ to $1, preferred from $28 to $2??. Last week the j railroad announced it was unable to cope j with the situation, asked its bankers, DilIon, Read & Co. and Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co., to help work out another new plan, i avert receivership. Chief immediate problem is the maturity of some $11,000,000 ; bonds during 1931. Seaboard...
...2???Yom Kippur (Day of Atone-ment), Jewish holiday...
...2???New York Philharmonic Symphony...
Wheat last week continued to make economic and perhaps political history when the Chicago price dropped to 83?¢ per bu., lowest since 1914. For the first time in 28 years corn sold in the pits 2?? per bu. above wheat instead of the usual 20¢ or 30¢ below. The husbandman's cry of "Crisis!" rose more shrilly throughout the land. Chairman Alexander Legge of the Federal Farm Board abruptly departed from Washington on a second crusade through the West for wheat acreage reduction (TIME, Aug. 4). En route he paused at Chicago to confer with cotton growers...