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Suddenly last week the five-day week movement bounded far out in front of the slow-moving industrial procession when the Senate unexpectedly passed (53-to-30) a bill that would clamp down upon U. S. manufacturers and producers not only the five-day week but also the far more radical six-hour day. As an emergency measure to combat unemployment the proposed law would be effective for only two years. Its author was smart little Hugo Black of Alabama, lawyer, War veteran, economic idealist. Senator Black & friends predicted his bill would supply 6,000,000 men with work...
...demonstrations in these cases were motivated by something more than an adolescent desire to make a noise; the students felt that they had been summarily and stupidly dealt with, and that efforts to clamp down on the free expression of undergraduate opinion deserved a plain and speedy answer. Such incldents as these, and the ill-feeling and organized protest stirred up, show not nearly the touchiness and independence of the student body, but more particularly the need of a saner policy on the part of the college and student councils in place of the present stubborn and antagonistic attitude...
People who thought Harry Ford Sinclair would retire to the background when his company merged with Prairie Oil and became Consolidated Oil Corp. did not know what energy there is left in the 56-year-old, broadfaced, clamp-mouthed tycoon...
...make a daguerreotype, a silver-plated copper plate, scrupulously clean, was subjected to the vapor from iodine until it turned a golden orange color. With the subject's neck held rigidly in an iron clamp the plate was exposed in a camera for from three to 30 minutes, developed by holding it over a cup of hot mercury, fixed by dipping in a mixture of hyposulphite of soda and gold chloride. Finger marks and heat ruin the image of a daguerreotype...
...Warner) differs from Svengali in the fact that John Barrymore's protégé is this time a dancer instead of a singer and a young man instead of a young woman. Barrymore also uses a slightly different make-up-a thin mustache, straggling goatee and a clamp on his left leg, to make him clubfooted. Unable to be a dancer himself, he becomes an impresario hypnotized by ambition to make an expert dancer out of someone else. Presently he finds a suitable subject -a young man with a Slav countenance and an impetuous disposition (Donald Cook...