Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reason the labor press has not become powerful journalistically is that since the days Federated Press was organized, the press in general has trained reporters to do a better job of labor reporting. Last month the National Labor Relations Board remarked that reports of labor news contrast markedly with ''inadequate reporting of labor disputes" before 1935, when the Wagner law was enacted. "Many of these [labor reporters]," said NLRB, "have been led to probe beneath the exterior dramatics of strike stories into conscientious study of the complicated social dilemma involved in every labor dispute, however small...
Chicago. Fortnight ago a babbling, excited delegation of mothers and teachers, representing 260 units of the Parent-Teacher Association. 50.000 families. 150,000 children, cornered beaming, bespectacled Dr. Herman N. Bundesen. Board of Health president, in his City Hall office, asked his help in combatting double features. "We feel.'' said their spokesman, "that they are detrimental to the health of our children, due to the many hours spent inside the theatre, depriving them of their rightful amount of outdoor exercise and rest, and resulting in fatigue, eyestrain and overwrought nerves. . . . Two-and-a-half hours is long enough...
...evidence of banking recovery embodied in the statistics of his report, Jefty O'Connor had to share honors with those two other Federal agencies which also watch over the national banking system, the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. That only twelve national bank's have failed since Mr. O'Connor took office-compared to 1,750 in the previous decade-was largely the result of the fact that banking was the only U. S. industry which was allowed to pass through the depression wringer. And the fact that deposits reached a record high...
...income in 1929 was $1,389,400,000, expenses $986,882,000. Last year gross bank income was only $847,197,000, expenses $577,851,000. In short, profits may be waxing, but banking is waning. Moreover the banking that remains is done on slimmer margins. The Federal Reserve Board released figures last week showing what easy money meant in terms of practical banking. For every $100 of loans and investments, national banks received $5.76 in interest in 1929, only...
...Freshman groups, would foster more immediate contacts and fraternity in each dormitory entry. 2) Such a council would create an organization for interdormitory activity and a means for publicizing Freshman affairs. 3) It would provide the vehicle for the expression of new ideas through direct representation on the governing board of every student unit...