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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Terms of the compromise contract, signed after a hearing before the State Labor Relations Board Friday morning, include a seven per cent wage increase, 48 hour week, and a preferential shop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Square Is Back to Normalcy as Georgian Walkout Ends | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

Kerins first became interested in Brookline education when he took five years to complete a four-year high school course there. "This is the case with 45 per cent of Brookline's high school students." he stated last night. "This situation is due to inefficiency and incompetence on the part of our school committee. Besides, the annual per capita is $150, the highest in the Commonwealth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sophmore Runs for Brookline School Committee; Calls Members 'Stooges' | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...During the last three years, about 45 per cent of the students who have taken the College Board Entrance Examination in English have gained exemption from English A; and from 9.6 per cent to 16.4 per cent of the men admitted by the Honor or Upper Seventh Plan who have taken the anticipatory examination, given by the University at the beginning of the Freshman year, have gained exemption...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1943 Will Find It Harder To Stay Out of English A | 1/13/1939 | See Source »

...Board's ruling, made on December 29, awarded the workers a 10 per cent increase in wages, a 48 hour week, and deferred the vacation question until sometime later. But, according to Joseph Stefani, business manager of local 106, the management refused to accept the agreement and is demanding a review of the case...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WORKERS STRIKE FOR SECOND TIME IN SEVEN WEEKS | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...result was obtained last month by a Fortune poll of public opinion. The question: "Should the Democratic powers, including the United States, now stand firm together at any cost to prevent Hitler or Mussolini from taking any more territory at the expense of other nations?" The answers: 56.3 per cent, Yes; 31 per cent, No; undecided, 12.7 per cent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMERICA AND THE WORLD--1939 VERSION | 1/5/1939 | See Source »

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