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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Osoaviakhim is the name of a vast Russian organization the job of which is to build up the Soviet's military reserves by training civilians and youths of pre-military age in such things as parachuting, aviation and chemical defense. "Enemies of the People" have wormed their way even, into this holy of holies. Declared Na Strazhe, Osoaviakhim's official organ, "Every enemy must be revealed...
...voluntarily formed a syndicate to bargain collectively under Mexico's 1931 Labor Law. Negotiations were stalled when the employers stuck flatly at the Oil Workers' demands: a 40-hour week instead of 44, a boost in minimum wages from roughly $1 to $1.70 a day, old-age pensions of from 75% to 100% of salary, & 6-day vacations with pay. The employers' syndicate, dismissing the pensions and vacations as "exaggerated and impossible," offered successively a $1.20 and then a $1.33 minimum wage, a 40-hour week split into five days instead of the five seven-hour days...
Birthday. Mrs. William Howard Taft, widow of the late President and Chief Justice of the U. S.; age...
...German-born Boston milk-dealer, Archibald Robertson Graustein whisked through Harvard Law School by the age of 21; at 25 was partner in the Boston law firm of Ropes, Gray, Boyden & Perkins, at 39 was president of International Paper Co., world's largest paper maker. Last year Mr. Graustein and International Paper parted company (TIME, Feb. 17, 1936), and Mr. Graustein began 'practicing corporate law in Manhattan. Last week, at 51, he was appointed special counsel in charge of corporate reorganization for the U. S. Maritime Commission, now busy in Washington on the vast job of subsidizing...
...Dealers are sure to like it better. The burden of Mr. Hendrick's epic song is: Fear not. The Constitution has survived much worse storms than this one, is not really so much a bulwark as a life-raft-"a living and fluid instrument, built not for an age, but for all time, responsive to the needs of a changing world." He reminds gloomy headshakers that the U. S. Government has outlasted every European form of the last 150 years...