Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upheld the State of Washington's Minimum Wage Law (TIME, April 6), the City of Washington's similar law was, after 14 years in limbo, restored to the statute books. If Congress wished to revise the Act, it was time to take action before the District of Columbia Commissioners appointed a Minimum Wage Board. Promptly Ruth Carnett, waitress, claiming she has been paid $10.40 a week instead of $16.50 as required by law sued her employer for the difference since the date of her employment, Jan. 13, 1936. ¶ To questioners at press conference the President reiterated that...
...many times before, the city celebrated the event with a festival embracing barefoot dancers, band concerts, fireworks, and the crowning of the 10-year-old daughter of the Japanese Ambassador, Miss Sakiko Saito, as Queen of the Festival. The entire performance brought to the District of Columbia an estimated 200,000 visitors, who left behind in hotels, shops and theatres about $5,000,000 in cash...
Editor of American Men of Science since its first edition (1906) is James McKeen Cattell, famed psychologist and educator, publisher of five scientific and educational journals, including the weekly Science. Lately Dr. Franz Schrader, Columbia University zoologist who was awarded a star in 1933, addressed a letter to Science protesting the system. Dr. Cattell tried to persuade Dr. Schrader to withdraw the letter, failed. As a scrupulous editor he printed it in Science last week...
Newest name and newest musical material on the Master list were those of Raymond Scott. This conscientious and well-schooled pianist-composer, heretofore unrecorded, began appearing on Columbia Broadcasting System's Saturday Night Swing sessions last January. Not swing musicians at all, since they are not free to improvise, the Scott Quintet does play in fox-trot tempo. What makes their music remarkable is that they play Scott's unconventional compositions, and play them with a finesse, variation and volume expected only of a 20-piece band. At present sold out is the one Scott record...
...considered a major sport was rowing, the others being in order of their approval baseball, football, track, and hockey. The latter was given a first rating in 1913. With the move of the Athletic Committee colleges in the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League, which includes Princeton, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, Cornell, and Columbia, almost unanimously recognize the activity on a par with football and other chief sports...