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...walked the streets for hours that night, next day. Third day, he resigned in a letter charging that NLRB's "entire record is replete with rotten radicalism." He added that Mr. Saposs' lecture "was quite in keeping with your smelly Fansteel decision in which you sought to bestow a paternal benediction on sit-down strikes." Board Secretary Nathan Witt forthwith fired Mr. Davidson for his "false and scurrilous letter." This made Mr. Davidson really mad. "How can they fire me? I quit first...
...highest honors the Chinese Government may bestow on a foreigner came last week to Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Jr., national chairman of the United Council for Civilian Relief in China. Presentation: the Grand Cordon Bleu of the Order of Jade, at the hands of Ambassador Hu Shih in Manhattan...
...years the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia (founder: Benjamin Franklin) has gone solidly about its business of promoting science and industry. To many a famed scientist, engineer, inventor have gone its awards for work that advanced their professions. Like other kudos-conferring bodies, the Institute has never tried to bestow kudos-where-kudos-is-due among ordinary businessmen. This week the Institute stepped out, announced that from now on it would recognize the science of industrial management...
...hour later venerable King Gustaf V, 81, was at the Stockholm railway station and Swedish newshawks watched attentively to note how many kisses His Majesty would bestow on his fellow sovereigns Danish King Christian X, 69, and that monarch's brother, Norwegian King Haakon VII, 67. In 1905 Norway abruptly broke away from union with Sweden, electing the Danish "Sailor Prince" Karl to become King of Norway as Haakon VII, and for many years afterward Swedish resentment over this remained keen. Thus in 1914, when Gustaf V asked the Scandinavian sovereigns to meet him at Malmo, Sweden, to adopt...
...Francois Briere, French Consul in Boston, will bestow the decoration in behalf of his government at a reception at the Consul's home in Brookline tomorrow afternoon. Mrs. Rand will receive her decoration from the Consult at 9 o'clock Friday night at the presentation of a French film in the Institute of Geographical Exploration...