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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congress' most serious job last week was tackled by a joint committee on the Wages & Hours Bill. The conferees agreed tentatively on a basic 25? minimum wage, then plunged into the difficult job of writing a compromise bill that would suit both houses. Meanwhile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Jun. 13, 1938 | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

...holiday to find out what life is all about. Johnny Case solves his problem neatly by leaving his fiancee, Julia, to rusticate in the Seton mansion, eloping with her older sister, Linda, who shares his disdain for her family bankroll. If, even in 1928, it was a little difficult to take seriously the plight of a hero and heroine whose chief problem was the prospect of having too much money, it would seem impossible to do so ten years later. Surprise of the third edition of Holiday is that it surmounts this apparent handicap without trying and emerges, thanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 13, 1938 | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

Chemistry 6 should require more Math or Physics than it does. The laboratory work does not follow the lectures, although Dr. Wilson is doing a good job in a difficult situation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Articles on Fields of Concentration | 6/8/1938 | See Source »

...graduate courses will be found difficult for Undergraduates, but the courses are worth looking into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Articles on Fields of Concentration | 6/8/1938 | See Source »

...elementary course. It was reorganized recently with a purpose of making it more interesting. It has become more so to the linguistic student who picks up the grammer easily from the reading and presumably concentrators would be in this group. But at the same time it has become more difficult for those who need a good solid grammatical foundation before they can read with profit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Articles on Fields of Concentration | 6/8/1938 | See Source »

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