Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...women and children. On the strength of the Supreme Court's 1923 decision, New York's Court of Appeals last March ruled the law unconstitutional. Its supporters hoped that, because it set up a commission to determine "fair and reasonable value of services," whereas the District of Columbia law had been simply a ban on starvation wages, the Supreme Court of 1936 would find it valid...
...decision 13 years ago the Supreme Court declared a Congressional statute fixing minimum wages for women workers in the District of Columbia to be in violation of the 14th Amendment. Surviving members of that Court are Justices Butler, Sutherland, McReynolds and Van Devanter, who concurred in the majority opinion, and Justice Brandeis, who refrained from sitting in the case because he had advocated passage...
...Columbia University Sculptor John Angel ... Litt.D. President William Mather Lewis of Lafayette College ... L.L.D. Retiring President Ellen Fitz Pendleton of Wellesley College ... Litt.D...
...planned for the next five years, Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences held a meeting last week to discuss ways & means of raising money, invited some of the city's best brains and fattest purses. Also present were Princeton's patriarchal Zoologist Edwin Grant Conklin and Columbia's learned Paleontologist William King Gregory. Up rose Lawyer Henry Sturgis Drinker, an Academy trustee...
...number of professional economists are seriously alarmed by what they consider an inflated bond market. At a meeting of the New York chapter of the American Statistical Association last fortnight no less than three went on record with loud warnings. Said Columbia University's Leland Rex Robinson: "Now hardly seems the time to pay high premiums for bonds. . . . The higher the grade of bond the greater the speculation in buying it now. It is difficult to see how the artificially low interest rates and bond yields . . . can much longer continue...