Word: clockings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less harassing post; second probability was his replacement by a New Deal trouble-shooter with an honest passion for anonymity: Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Bracken Fleming, Army engineer, onetime West Point athletics chief. Lieutenant-Colonel Fleming, slight, bronzed, amiable, who works with the ticking efficiency of a time-clock, knows the U. S. as only an engineer can. He has performed special functions in PWA, Resettlement, Farm Security, supervised the attempt to harness the Bay of Fundy's tides at Passamaquoddy. First problem Andrews' successor must face: enforcement of the Oct. 24 minimum wage boost to 30? (from...
...prominent Poles said that as soon as their Government can get together enough money to keep going* it expects to remove to a small inexpensive provincial town "somewhere in Normandy." Meanwhile the Government stayed at the tiny Danube Hotel, worked last week from 7 a. m. right around the clock to 3 a. m., employed Poet Jan Lehon as its Press Officer. In London arrived Mme Josef Pilsudski, widow of the late great Marshal, "the Father of Modern Poland" whom Adolf Hitler professes to respect. Snapped the Widow Pilsudski last week: "No one believes Hitler's speeches of good...
...playhouse is "the plant." When he is in Detroit he gets to the office at 9 o'clock in the morning, gets out of it as soon as he can get through the mail, to go through one of the factories and to spend long hours in the engineering department. When he is on the road visiting the Chrysler factories outside Detroit, he spends his nights on Pullmans, his days in inspection and in whooping up the sales force. He hasn't had a drink since 1927 when his doctors assured him it was bad for his health...
...first of a series of five lectures presented by the Harvard Catholic Club. Thomas F. Woodlock, railroads expert, will speak on "Threats To American Liberties" at 8 o'clock tonight in Emerson...
Today is the last day on which courses may be changed without liability of the course fee. Petitions must be filed in person at University 2 before 5 o'clock. Extensions will be granted only because of illness...