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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pointing out that the effect of the walk-out will be the complete breakdown of the dining hall systems in the Houses, at the Union and graduate school eating places, Stefani announced that A.F. of L. teamsters had pledged their support and will refuse to deliver food to the College. At the same time the strike will have the active backing of the Cambridge Central Labor Union, an organization of 30,000 workers in the city...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dining Hall Workers Threaten Walk-Out | 3/8/1939 | See Source »

...suicide (TIME, Jan. 2). Shocked Oswegans hoped that the tragedy would startle the boys into decency, but they took no chances. As the new principal they picked a gruff-voiced six-footer, Clarence Salter. To everybody's amazement, Oswego's rowdies, unchastened by Melvin Attig's breakdown, promptly started to haze Principal Salter. Two days after his arrival they rang a false alarm, brought fire engines shrieking to the school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rowdies Routed | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...hearings in a mood of high scorn for the incompetence and extravagance of public officials. He asked President Clarence A. Dykstra (pronounced dike´-struh) of the University of Wisconsin-formerly Cincinnati's efficient city manager, with whom Governor La Follette replaced Republican Dr. Glenn Frank-for a breakdown showing the cost-per-student of each department in the university. He said that in his business, when a department was found inefficient, it was discontinued. Said he, "I want to know if there is a cancerous growth, and if there is, I want to cure it or kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WISCONSIN: Heil Heil | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...other reporters, that I attended the five consecutive sessions of the committee from October 17 to 21, inclusive, which covered the testimony on the Michigan sitdown strikes, including the testimony of Judge Gadola and ex-City Manager Barringer that the "treasonable" conduct of Governor Murphy had resulted in "a breakdown of civil authority." We cannot hope to stop that type of reporting in the Tribune, but we may succeed in making it embarrassing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 21, 1938 | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...circus stars: the Flying Codonas, Hugo Zacchini, Clyde Beatty, and, most brilliantly of all, the "animal-audience." Sure enough, Bob's dog act is a flop. Ann is bitten by a huge python and has a miscarriage. And every high-wire leap plunges Bob closer to a nervous breakdown. When he is only a few days away from a psychopathic ward, Ann hatches a scheme to get him fired. In the big, happy finale, superpressagent Wright Boyes (a ringer for Dexter Fellows) sends them off with good wishes for a long life of headlining with fine medium-sized circuses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Three-Ring Tale | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

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