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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Metallurgical Corp. seized that concern's plants at North Chicago, Ill. Against police assaults and court commands to vacate, they held fast until Fansteel's lawyer devised a portable _ wooden tower, enabled officers to douse the sit-downers with nauseating gas. Last September, the National Labor Relations Board declined to concede that subsequent conviction of 37 strikers and two C. I. O. leaders on contempt of court charges in any way affected workers' rights under the Wagner Act. By directing Fansteel to re-employ the strikers, recognize their union, the board clearly informed all employers that relief...
...Reform Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia began to break the 17-year rule of Tammany Hall over the city's public schools. One February day in 1935 he filled a vacancy on the Board of Education with a squarejawed, tousle-headed young man named James Marshall. His very first day Jimmy Marshall split not only with the Tammanyites but with his Fusion colleague, supported a bill to raise the compulsory school age to 18. Before the month was out he was known as the most uncompromising member of the Board of Education...
Chief extracurricular activity of James Marshall, however, is fighting juvenile delinquency and crime. A onetime boys' reform school president, when he became a member of the Board of Education he promptly started a two-year survey of maladjustment and delinquency in the schools which last fall proposed an elaborate program for keeping youngsters out of mischief...
...last week he had become so glamorous a St. George to the city's schools that his more conservative colleagues, although they have often voted against him. this time unanimously elected him president of the Board of Education and top man in the world's biggest and naughtiest school system...
...luck to know a little girl named Mabel Dodge (later Luhan). who has recorded that his nickname was "Grouch" Goodyear. A Yaleman, class of '99. a Wartime colonel and commander of the 81st Field Artillery, "Grouch" Goodyear is president of Great Southern Lumber Co. and board chairman of Gulf, Mobile & Northern Railroad Co. He is also president of the Museum of Modern...