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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed Manchester Guardian and Chicago Daily News correspondent who supplied John Gunther and Dorothy Thompson with much of their Hitler-baiting background, thought it best for his health to flee Austria. Acme's Photographer Ernest Kleinberg, a Polish Jew, was taken into "protective custody." By week's end transfer of several foreign news service bureaus to suppression-free Prague, Budapest and other Central European capitals was under...
...when Joe Shoong was 24, he started the first China Toggery in Vallejo, a little town at the end of San Francisco Bay. After the 1906 earthquake he moved to San Francisco. Ten years later he opened his first branch, in Sacramento. And ten years after that, with ten stores in California, he began to do business in the northwest-Seattle, Portland, Tacoma...
...tight-lipped opposition of all the old-line insurance companies, the plan was a thoroughpaced success. There are now 24 Massachusetts savings banks with life insurance departments, 117 more that act as agents. Massachusetts citizens can insure their lives for anything between $100 and $24,000. At the end of 1937 some 160,000 Massachusetts citizens or onetime Massachusetts citizens had policies totaling $140,000,000. The savings banks do 5% of Massachusetts' total life insurance business...
That Stillman Infirmary may have added a maternity ward seemed thoroughly plausible at week's end, when the Purchasing Department announced it had bought 30 dozens of diapers...
...these activities that the Federation is eager to have checked, for with their termination, many maids would probably leave the inside union just as precipitously as they joined. The accusations against the University constitute a strategic manoeuvre on the part of the A.F. of L. to force Harvard to end the irresponsible actions of some of the janitors. By confining its employees to their proper functions the University can avoid a Labor Board hearing which would prove annoying even though it revealed a group of minor employees out of hand and not an anti-Federation cabal in University Hall. Better...