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...workers. Thus did the entire industry court favor with the Administration by payroll increases. Day after this first move, Senator Wagner's National Labor Board opened strike hearings in Washington. The heads of the A. F. of L. automobile union appeared with evidence to prove that Hudson. Buick and Fisher Body had discharged men who joined A. F. of L. unions, had herded workers into company unions. They demanded shop elections under Labor Board auspices for workers to choose their own unions. The Labor Board heard them with much sympathy. Only that morning Senator Wagner had appeared before...
Divorced from Actress Eames (who died in 1930), Sidney Howard married "Polly" Damrosch, daughter of famed Conductor Walter Damrosch, in 1931. Two years ago they moved to California in a Buick. A thin, high-shouldered man, whose thick glasses and birdlike carriage give him a slightly alarmed appearance, Sidney Howard has a two-room flat in Hollywood, a more capacious apartment in Manhattan. For work he dresses in a tweed coat, grey flannel trousers, sneakers. He smokes cigarets steadily and rubs his chin while dictating, by fits and starts, faster than most stenographers can take...
...order to fill in that twenty-nine minutes, after you get through answering Yes or No, you first look the question over and decide what the topic of the question is. For instance; if the question is "Will a Ford go faster than a Buick?" On first appearance that question looks like a natural for a good old "Yes" or a good old "No," but under the Harvard system that isn't the half of it. First you look the question over, and come to the conclusion that the general subject is automobiles. Then you just go ahead...
General Motors had 100,000 orders for Chevrolet alone; for Buick and Oldsmobile, 20,928; for Pontiac, 20,000. Even Cadillac reported deliveries 50% above last January. Other General Motors news of the week...
...Buick has rounded off its rear end to conform with aerodynamic principles but its design has not been radically altered. ''Knee-action" wheels, automatic choke and power brakes make for 1934 comfort. Oldsmobile this year added a low-priced six to go with its regular line of eights. More thoroughly streamlined than last year, Oldsmobile has all of GM's contributions to easier riding and driving...