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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Labor Relations] Board has given an insurgent group the rights of belligerents, a privilege accorded in international affairs only after careful deliberation and full consideration of its grave consequences," A. F. of L.'s monthly American Federationist complained this week. "Every agency of government that gives status to the C. I. O. gives the same recognition...
...their strike. As astounded by this remarkable punishment as attorneys in Judge Fuller's courtroom, C. I. O.'s Carey appealed, chose imprisonment but was released on bond, announced: "I was faced with six months in jail . . . [or] a lifetime with my conscience. . . ." This week an arbitration board set up by Governor Kraschel proposed that Maytag take back all hands at full pay, pending negotiation. Maytag having refused, back-to-workers went back to work, strikers continued their strike...
Headmaster Bonner based the Redding Ridge Plan on the conviction that only one thing can be done thoroughly at a time. Redding Ridge prepares boys for College Entrance Examination Board papers, and its courses are no departure. Novelty of the system lies in shuffling the courses so that a boy studies only one subject per year. In the first year (known as Second Form) pupils study geography -as related to literature, mathematics, world history, human relationships. Next year French is the major subject and Third Formers live in a separate house, speak only French, conduct all classes in French, master...
...court cannot reduce salaries or wages-the railroad is too poverty-stricken to engage in a strike or a quarrel of any kind or wait for the Labor Board to decide what the wages shall be ... the decision must be theirs [the employes']. . . ." Simultaneously Judge Howe reversed his earlier stand, allowed creditors to sue. The ink was scarcely dry on his ruling when three banks (Central Hanover Bank and Trust Co., United States Trust Co. of New York, Old Colony Trust Co.) filed foreclosures on mortgages involving $9,250,000. This week Judge Howe is meeting with "all persons...
Most exclusive of the finishing schools are Foxcroft and Farmington. Tuition and board at Farmington cost $1,800 a year. Farmington does not prepare girls for college (but will make exceptions to this rule beginning next fall). Some Farmington rules...