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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...criticism and court maneuver thus engendered, an NLRB spokesman last week disclosed that in these cases the board had relied upon a Supreme Court finding two years ago. This was at the time that the case passed upon last fortnight was heard and remanded for retrial to a lower court. Ruled the Supreme Court, on May 25, 1936: "While it would have been good practice to have the [Department of Agriculture] examiner prepare a report and submit it to the Secretary and the parties, and to permit exceptions and arguments addressed to the points thus presented ... we cannot say that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Court v. Court | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...Croat, Colonel Chopic. Its political commissar, John Gates, is a little soft-spoken union organizer from New York. "The Americans in the brigade are about 75% to 80% Communists-a much higher percentage than in other brigades. In the British and Canadian battalions the percentage of Communists is much lower." U. S. volunteers are still carrying on in the Leftist medical service and U. S.-donated ambulances, bearing such inscriptions as To the Spanish Republic from the Workers of Barre and Montpelier, Vermont, are still chugging about behind the lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Rained Out | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...make decisions . . . not controlled by an itch to move to the next higher desk by pleasing his High Potency who sits in the mahogany paneled room in front of the front of the front office. If owners would encourage a little chronic arthritis of the knee in the lower realms of reporting and copyreading we might come out from the clouds of suspicion that envelop our noble profession at the moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Plain-Speaking Spokesman | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...midst of a noisy tenement district in Manhattan's warren-like lower East Side, the school's neat, old-fashioned red brick building stands out with an air of simple respectability. In it, simple-mannered, genial, white-haired Director Melzar Chaffee considers the aptitudes, problems and ambitions of each of his hundreds of students, himself teaches some of them how to play the fiddle. Not all are children; mothers and fathers come for lessons too. The school's youngest pupil is three, its oldest 49. Fees for lessons range from 50? to $2. Children under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Socrates and Nina | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

Less experienced than the cool Eli eight, the Hainesmen were unable to settle and forced to a lower beat. With a half-mile to go, rowing smoothly at a high beat combined with efficient inboard work, stroke Bailey's boat nipped the leads of Princeton and Tech and closed the gap on the Elis. Yale was already over by two-thirds of a length, however, clocking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson 150-Lb. Crew Smashes Record Over Henley Distance at Lake Carnegie | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

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