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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philip Murray and Sidney Hillman. With them at the Hotel Statler was swart young Lee Pressman, C. I. O. general counsel, who is so thoroughly allergic to Homer Martin that the two were kept apart. Boss John L. Lewis had sent the visitors to save C.I.O.'s third largest union from dismemberment at the hands of Mr. Martin and feuding fellow officers (TIME, June 20). Mr. Lewis was aboard ship, coasting home from a union conference in Mexico City, but his absence lessened neither the fact of his intervention in an autonomous affiliate's affairs nor Homer Martin...
...Czechoslovakia will shortly open three huge cemeteries," announced the Prager Presse defiantly this week. "The largest of the three, at Chodov, is big enough to hold 500,000 corpses." Above this was splashed a headline:" THE MOST MODERN MORGUE IN EUROPE...
...Applied Mechanics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology suggested a way to improve propeller performance in the substratosphere: bigger propellers, designed to take bigger bites of air to make up for slower turning speed. For a starter they suggested 20-foot propellers, nearly twice the size of the largest...
...largest small businessmen invited by Secretary of Commerce Daniel Calhoun Roper to a Conference of Little Business in Washington last February was DeWitt McKinley Emery-6 ft. 6 in. When that conference became a circus it made red-headed Mr. Emery very angry. Two months previously he had conceived on his own idea of a national conference of small businessmen, had sent out from his Akron, Ohio stationery plant a form letter to other little men which began: "The sheriff is about to get my business. How's yours?" He attended the Washington shenanigans, was disgusted, decided...
...School, largest of the graduate units, expects 1,250 men this year, a decrease of 39 from last year's figure of 1,389. The first-year men registered Saturday and the upperclassmen begin today and tomorrow. Third in size of its student body is the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences with 800 men expected during the next few days. There were 755 during a similar period last year...