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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about social and industrial reform.' So he composed and issued a great encyclical entitled Rerum Novarum ("Concerning New Things"). Firmly rejecting the new Socialism and its "community of goods" as "directly contrary to the natural rights of mankind," he enunciated a platform which he was later to expand so as to put Mother Church on record for trades unionism, the eight-hour day, minimum wage laws, old age pensions and much else that was "radical" then, commonplace...
...Still under fire for his veto of the Wagner bill, President Hoover last week appointed John R. Alpine of New York, an A. F. of L. man, as special assistant to Secretary of Labor Doak to expand the existing Federal Employment service with an extra $500,000 allowed by Congress. Meanwhile Secretary Doak, reporting an increase in February employment over January, declared: "It looks to me like the first sign of a general pick-up in industry...
...purpose of the Fund should be restated each year: It is to help the University meet the constant need for money to expand its work, enlarge its personnel, and improve its equipment by providing a way for all Alumni to contribute each year an amount fixed by themselves. The use of the Fund is unrestricted except that gifts by Alumni of a Graduate School only shall be used for that School...
...making a new record for the company. Subsidiaries contributing to this performance included: Nature's Rival Co., Venus Brassiere Co., Parisform Brassiere Co. Some of Associated's better-known trade-names are College Girl, Modart, Venus, Solitaire, Last week it was reported that Associated will expand still further in the intimate industry of personal garments. Final details were said to be near conclusion for a merger between Associated and Munsingwear, Inc., big maker of underwear and stockings for men, women, children. In Minneapolis is the main Munsingwear plant, where some 3,000 workers are kept busy...
...undergraduate body, the proliferation of all kinds of different courses and subjects to meet the restless needs of the time, the appearance of vast and expensive educational "plant," the semi-industrialization of athletics, the development of great endowment funds and the necessity for endowment "drives" to maintain and expand them, and, finally, the replacement of the nineteenth-century college president by the business executive competent to care for these elaborate and pressing interests--all this has the appearance of a natural process, as unconscious and as difficult to control as such processes usually...