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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hardly to be expected that John L. Lewis' modest personality would be subdued by his steel poll success; but yesterday he overstepped not only the bounds of prudence but also of political common sense. For the C.I.O. chief was not satisfied with merely deploring the action of the judge who has forced labor workers Hapgood and aids to "languish" behind cold steel. Lewis stated that he blamed the State and all the people in the State for allowing such a thing to happen. In fact, he expressed the hope that no person connected with or interested in the C.I.O. would...
OUtbursts of collegiate enthusiasm are common and healthy signs of student activity, and Harvard has always had a full share. Peace rallies, military science parades, communist conclaves have elbowed each other for a position at the University news front. But seldom have students been given a more dramatic opportunity to combine political and humanitarian virtue and to spend money than by the most recent flash in the news pan. A Harvard Ambulance, resplendent in white paint and red lettering, bouncing dangerously across the Spanish terra to rescue democracy, is indeed a pretty picture...
Society's Choice. Chief Justice Hughes began his speech with a tribute to Elihu Root as the one who made possible the work of the American Law Institute in restating the common law to match the times. It was not until the last 150 words of his speech that the Chief Justice pointed his remarks on the up-to-date state of the Court and improvements in Court procedure since 1891 with a ringing plea for an independent judiciary. Orated...
...deal. Another $1,000,000 came from Messrs. Young & Kolbe. Rest of the sale price for control of Alleghany Corp. ($6,375,000) was made up by a promissory note for $2,375,000, payable in two years and secured by 1,200,000 shares of Alleghany common, last week selling on the New York Stock Exchange at $4 per share...
...been hamstrung by Jefferson Davis' defensive policy. Even some Northerners, looking around at what the U. S. has become and back at what the South was, can see that the Civil War might have been a tragic mistake, can wonder whether reducing the South to the lowest common denominator of the Union was worth four years of blood and ruin. Both these points of view are implicit in Bugles Blow No More, which last week added one to the growing number of historical romances about the Civil...