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Annually University Hall is faced with the problem of solicitation in University buildings and grounds. The decision made by the Administration last spring, and the recent edict by Dean Hanford, although fully clarifying the University attitude, fails to do away with the situation which arise and which will continue to arise, under existing conditions. So long as an unlimited number of laundry and pressing agencies are permitted to exist, there is bound to be solicitation, whether underhand or otherwise, and competition which precludes the possibility of profit on the part of these numerous agencies. Two courses are open the laundry...
This stiff edict from a 38-year-old ex-top sergeant of Marines left Hopewell feeling decidedly hopeless. Union leaders sneered "Bluff," accused the company of trying to starve its workers into submission, planned an appeal to the U. S. Labor Relations Board. But nowhere in the New Deal could they find any provision for compelling Capital, once it went on strike, to go back to work against its will...
...that year Roman Emperor Diocletian banned local coinage to introduce a standard monetary unit of his own. Thus, if the four-celled structure was not a bank, it was the hiding-place of some Third Century miser, whose hoard had been rendered worthless by the imperial edict...
...dragged into months, months into a year. Last week when it came time for the general to take a vacation his score stood: 476 codes made, 262 to go. But the hard-talking NRAdministrator would not go vacationing with his job left in that unsettled state. He delivered an edict: All code-making must be wound up before he gets back to his desk. Then, his conscience content, he hopped an Army airplane with Secretary Frances ("Robbie") Robinson and flew west...
Having made this edict to end all code-making in 30 days, he announced that he had written the President that as soon as code making was done NRA would cease to be a one-man job and should be administered by a non-partisan commission. Then, lest the public entertain any premature hopes of his early retirement, he added...