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Dates: during 1930-1939
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James M. Tobin was elected First Marshal of Phi Beta Kappa for the class of 1939 at a meeting of the chapter in the Winthrop House Common Room. Second Marshal is Irving M. London. In addition to officers, the Junior Eight elected the Senior Sixteen last night...
...Hanson's theory was a simple reductio ad absurdum with which neither publishers, Guild nor common practice agree. The Act sets 44 hours as the maximum work week, requires overtime payment at one and one-half times the regular salary rate. But out-of-town assignments are part of the normal duties of many a reporter, and while some Guild contracts require twelve hours' pay for each day away from home, any newshawk who tried to collect 24 hours on the same basis would soon be laughed...
...COMMON AILMENT, Dodge Publishing...
Last week American Export's owners pulled off a stunt almost as daring as William Coverdale's plan. To finance the air service, they launched a $924,000 common stock issue in Wall Street, where money for the soberest of schemes has lately been scarce. A Lehman Brothers syndicate, which offered the 88,000 shares at $10.50 apiece, called the flotation "successful...
...cent's worth of electricity will toast 26 slices of bread. Last week the $1,300,000,000 utility issued its third-quarter earnings report. Its net income of $3,506,027 was enough to toast 156 slices of bread for the holder of each share of its common stock-precisely 26 slices more than for the same period last year...