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...paid $20,000 a year, given lifetime jobs, if Congress was determined to give any men such powers. He filed 28 typed pages of suggested changes in the bill. Sears, Roebuck's President Robert E. Wood felt that instead of permitting the Board at its option to employ advisers in fixing wages & hours for a particular industry, they should be compelled to appoint advisory wage committees...
Taking up his duties immediately, Dean Williams announced: "As a result of these conferences it was determined to focus attention primarily upon those already in the Government employ. Thus the work in the school will be on a post-professional basis; the students will be men with governmental experience...
...abridge AP's Constitutional guarantee of freedom? "We hold that it does not," ruled the Court. "We think the contention not only has no relevance to the circumstances of the instant case but is an unsound generalization. . . . The Act... does not require that the petitioner retain in its employ an incompetent editor or one who fails faithfully to edit the news to reflect the facts without bias or prejudice. The Act permits a discharge for any reason other than union activity or agitation for collective bargaining. . . . The restoration of Watson to his former position in no sense guarantees...
William Holbrook, in charge of the dances, was wise enough not to fall back wholly upon the ludicrous effects invariably produced by men's attempting to employ the charms of women. This cruder part of the comedy is by no means neglected, but it is stoutly reinforced by some complex and highly entertaining routines, which the chorus men and chorus girls have assiduously perfected. Outstanding, however, in the line of non-dramatic amusement, are the dancing and the Indian-club juggling of John Develin...
...rich and famed in the service of pioneering railroads beset by train robbers. But while boyish hearts thumped to the exploits of intrepid Pinkerton men in dime novels, Labor grew to hate the name more & more. For Pinkerton's was also making money by supplying armed guards to employers with labor troubles. In 1892 hard-boiled Henry Clay Frick imported 300 "Pinks" to fight a bloody, all-day battle with his steelworkers at Homestead, Pa. Ten were killed, 30 wounded and the public loudly protested. Congress passed a curious law forbidding the Government or any District of Columbia official...