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Such was the situation last week when President Roosevelt stepped in. To Chairman Francis Biddle of the Labor Board he wrote a "hands-off" letter which, at first blush, looked like surrender to the publishers. Acknowledging that a few of the 550 NRA codes contained special provisions for adjudicating labor disputes, the President laid down three principles limiting the Labor Board's activities in such cases: 1) The Labor Board shall refuse to hear any complaint or even review testimony. 2) It may hear complaints that a Code Board is improperly constituted, and submit recommendations to the President...
...inter-House program than the hope of receiving an individual medal. Such trinkets as the jewelers of the Square offer each fall to catch the eye of the callow Freshman have no firmly established place in the life of the Harvard man. They are baubles born to blush unseen, to waste their brilliance in the bureau drawer. As such, they might be disposed with as adjuncts of our inter-House program. Before the custom becomes too firmly entrenched in the tradition of the system, it should be rooted...
Hereafter, when I am in the North or East, and the name of Mississippi is mentioned, I can only keep my mouth shut and blush. The dignity of the State, as well as the national Congress, is something that ought to be considered by voters. But you, who can see us from an objective point of view, do be kind to us when...
...split approximately 25% to New York, 75% to Westinghouse. Westinghouse's new type AB was put on the market three years ago. Only 30,000 cars are now equipped with it. But there are some 2,000,000 freight cars with old-type brakes. Thus at first blush it looked as if the two air brake companies could count 200,000 brake orders per year at $145 a set-$290,000,000 of business in the next ten years. Westinghouse stock jumped from $18 per share to $23 on the American Railway Association's announcement last week...
...Patrician burghers still blush painfully at mention of the shocking events of last year, when the native crew of Holland's biggest battleship, DC Zevcn Provincien, waited until the commander and most of the officers were ashore, mutinied, and seized the ship (TIME...