Word: following
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most indignant was Breaker Bergoff at what happened to some of his men at Remington Rand's Tonawanda, N. Y. plant. Tycoon Rand wanted them to walk through picket lines, thus give loyal employes courage to follow. When the Bergoff huskies tried it, they were showered with bricks. "Rand," recounted Bergoff last week, "kind of put it over on me. I didn't know my men were getting into quite such a dangerous spot. He even wanted me to bring women up there, but I didn't do it, and I'm glad I didn...
...pointing toward another marine transport objective. Meeting, there last week was an International Joint Commission of six appointed by Canada and the U. S. to discuss the feasibility of a passage for deep-sea vessels from Albany to the St. Lawrence River. This passage, first projected in 1902, would follow the Hudson as far as the Champlain Canal, thence through Lake Champlain to the Richelieu River, which would be dredged to the St. Lawrence. Behind this scheme, which would cost some $150,000,000 last week were ranged Albany civic societies and such groups as the New England slate industry...
...complex Crawford family left the hospital, freighted with baby formulas, feeding schedules and pediatric advice which they could scarcely follow in their one-room shack. Effie told the world at large: "We all's gonna name the baby Bert J. Moses Crawford. The Bert J. don't mean anything, but we don't want people calling him Moses...
Social Security was one of N.R.D.G.A.'s prime legislative purposes long before that subject took form on the Congressional calendar. Social Security is, in effect, insurance on buying power. Retailers are close to the public, so self-interest dictates that retailing policy follow elections...
...Council of Government Concentrators indicates that it is well on the way to success. Students in other fields, particularly in the order social sciences, would do well to follow the Council's example. While the instructors must be willing to cooperate, it is important that the actual impetus come from the men themselves. Inerested and critical student organizations in every field of concentration would go a long way toward stimulating that absorption of interest of the individual student in his subject matter which is the very lifeblood of a university...