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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Repeal the Wagner Act? Though the A. F. of L. conspicuously omitted Secretary of Labor Perkins from the speakers' list, the delegates listened with polite hostility to Chairman J. Warren Madden of the National Labor Relations Board, who flatly denied that his rulings had favored C. I. O. It was, he explained, illegal for an employer to coerce employes into joining any union, and that included A. F. of L. unions. Whenever the Labor Board discovered an employer forcing his workers into an A. F. of L. union as the lesser of two evils...
...washing. More recent and not at all apocryphal is the account handed down by Johann Nepomuk Franz Aloys Senefelder, a ragtag Bavarian actor & playwright, of the fretful day in 1796 when he was so poor he had neither paper nor ink with which to write his laundry list. Senefelder. whose plays no one would print, had been trying to make himself his own engraver by practicing writing backward on slabs of limestone which he picked up around Munich. In wax, backward, he wrote the laundry list on a piece of stone, reflected afterward that if the stone were bitten away...
...Warsaw police arrested the Russian woman editor and the staff of Our Life, "first professional journal" for thieves, burglars, robbers-an incredible publication which told how to break safes, commit burglaries without leaving fingerprints. Our Life advertisers offered window jimmies and burglary instruction. Police seized the long list of subscribers in Poland and abroad, arrested many in Russia...
This reading list has been widely hailed by the general public, some thousands of copies having been distributed. The prizes and examinations offered by the university are, however, at present confined to undergraduates...
Believing that "a course taken under compulsion at the college age" would not meet the need, President Conant appointed a committee of the faculty to prepare an "extra-curricular reading list" for the purpose...