Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...union Ford Motor Co., still resisting an NLRB order to cease opposition to C. I. O., reinstated 23 discharged unionists, as the Board had ordered-but said it was obeying the law of increasing production rather than the Wagner Act. Recovered from the factional strife which nearly destroyed the union last year, C. I. O.'s U. A. W. was in fettle for a drag-out fight with Chrysler. After that, great G. M. also might be called on to let its workers slowdown by agreement, or see them slowdown by conspiracy on the assembly line...
...Cincinnati and San Francisco (TIME, Oct. 16), were a-twist with statutory cramps. Each had fattened on the Wagner Act; neither was ready to go all the way back to Sam Gompers and confess that what ailed them was an overdose of law. Both blamed the National Labor Relations Board for their gripes, each complained that craven administrators had favored the other. But angry John Lewis and his delegates came close to admitting that they knew the cause of the Labor pangs in C. I. O.'s belly. Said they: "Since the enactment of the [Wagner] Act organized Labor...
Hospital doctors examined them, reported them to the Board of Health as dysentery cases. Next day the number had tripled, and State Welfare Director Archibald Leonard Bowen, knowing that many modern doctors do not recognize a case of typhoid when they see one, at once chlorinated the hospital's water supply, sent a truckload of typhoid vaccine to the hospital. But it was too late...
...Economics Department has abolished Plan B, contradicting runners of an inadequate number of tutors in the department. Professor Harold H. Burbank, Chairman of the Board of Tutors in Economics, said that the department had taken no unusual action...
Stanley C. Salmon '36, Secretary for the Board on the Supervision of Students, has announced reading tests for the Freshmen and those upperclassmen who wish to test their proficiency. Rate and comprehension are determined by the speed and accuracy of the student in his handling of a set material in a limited amount of time...