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Smith will discuss "The National Labor Relations Act and Business," drawing from his experience on the Massachusetts Commission for Labor and Industries and at his present job since 1934.
Seven members of the Faculty are among the signers of a protest to the Massachusetts Legislature slamming the report of that body's commission on subversive activities as "an apology for fascism," it was announced last night. The protest will be read at the State House this morning.
Last week, San Francisco's huge Golden Gate Bridge was one year old, and well into the red. In its first year the bridge showed an operating deficit of close to $235,000. Main reason: the Southern Pacific's auto ferries shuttle cars across the Gate at 30...
...Mississippi and the Missouri were published in LIFE. Francis D. Healy, elderly chairman of St. Louis's Municipal Art Commission, saw them and snorted that the fountain would be better named "Wedding in a Nudist Colony" (TIME, Aug. 9). For Sculptor Milles' wave-naked Tritons, Commissioner Hubert Hoeflinger, onetime tailor, suggested trousers. Finally the Star-Times took a poll of public opinion, found plenty of people who agreed with the two indignant commissioners about "art" which had no fully-dressed pioneers or Indians in it, only some foreign-looking nudes and inappropriate deep-sea fishes...
To all this soft-spoken Carl Milles responded: "I am certain that they will love the finished fountain." Somewhat forgotten amid the publicity was the fact that Milles possesses not only the most invigorating fancy now at work in sculpture but an unsurpassed gift for making a powerful, rhythmic composition...