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...either side provided a showdown could be pre vented. Fortnight ago here was a preliminary skirmish when the A. F. of L. Automobile Workers' Union demanded a 20% wage increase and recognition. Last week the opening gun of the battle was fired by the National Automobile Chamber of Com merce. After a two-day session in Detroit the Chamber issued a manifesto declaring that, in spite of the fact that hourly wages are as high as in 1929, that weekly earnings are 90% as high and living costs only 83% as high, it would advise its members...
...Most Philadelphians felt that they had Mary Louise Curtis Bok to thank for sav ing their city's opera reputation. She has been quietly attending all the Orchestra's board meetings. She still owns the scenery and costumes used by the Philadelphia Grand Opera. Only a professional com pany can give her Curtis Institute pupils the experience they need. The Philadelphia Grand Opera dis banded when Curtis Publishing, earnings were about at their low. Now Curtis no longer owns the money-losing New York Evening Post* And the Saturday Evening Post was 1 24 pages thick last week...
...plane, the General proceeded to Newark Airport, to Cleveland, to Chicago, to St. Louis. He found two-way radios with ranges up to 400 mi. were being installed on Army planes. Landing lights were being attached. Beacon signals were being improved and a teletype weather reporting system was nearly com plete. Old-type observation ships were being outfitted with artificial horizons, di rectional gyroscopes, new compasses and flight instruments. Work was progressing feverishly on new bombers in the Martin factory near Baltimore. . His inspection trip convinced General Foulois that the Army was now ready to -make a fresh -start with...
...take back the strikers and hold an election. Budd refused and refused again when the National Labor Board issued a similar order. Then an election was held in the plant and a company union set up. The NRA Compliance Board finally ordered another vote on: i) a modified com-pany union plan, or 2) joining the A. F. of L. union. The election, set for last week, was postponed on NRA orders to allow General Johnson to decide whether some 800 ousted strikers should be permitted to present credentials and vote. In spite of the postponement order another election...
Conservative Premier Bennett hastily got the Parliament to extend the eleven banks' charters for one year instead of ten in re turn for his promise to call a commission to study Canada's whole banking, currency and coinage system. Head of this com mission, which shuttled all over the Dominion holding public hearings last summer and autumn, was Hugh Pattison Macmillan, Baron of Aberfeldy (TIME. Aug. 28, Nov. 20). For ten years Lord Macmillan had been heading British com missions including the Royal Commission on Lunacy & Mental Disorder and the Home Office Committee on Street Of fences...