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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back of last week's dramatic finale lay an extraordinary seven-month struggle. Introduced in the Senate by Alabama's Hugo LaFayette Black and in the House by Massachusetts' late William P. Connery Jr., the Wages & Hours Bill had the major aim of setting up an authority to impose on U. S. industry minimum wages & maximum hours of labor. The Senate passed it last July, but in the House it was held up by a hostile Rules Committee until a majority petition to discharge it was completed three weeks ago. Last week, by the time that...
With other U. S. municipalities climbing out of the last Depression and restoring normal school services, two major cities last week surprisingly closed their schools for a prolonged Christmas vacation for lack of funds...
Censorship has not been a major problem in this war. The great bulk of the reporting has been done behind China's lines and the Chinese do not wish to minimize their foe's might. Coverage of this war has other quixotic aspects. Reporters who are in a Chinese city one day may find it belongs to Japan the next. In Shanghai correspondents and cameramen could sleep comfortably in clean hotel beds, decide each morning which army they wanted to cover that day. But such convenience bred its carelessness and, for example, all United Press...
...been severely criticized as a monopoly; in 1939 its profitable South American mail contracts expire and are unlikely to be renewed at the present high rate. "Therefore the only present medium of investment in the promising foreign field is the stock of a company which is facing a major crisis in the not far distant future...
...winter lecture season got under way, one plain fact was apparent from the topics chosen for speeches, the fees paid lecturers, the types of writers who proved popular. It was that the taste of U. S. audiences had been rapidly changing. A few years ago sex and psychology were major lecture subjects, with travel adventure of the type popularized by Richard Halliburton running them a close third. This year's audiences will hear little sex but much politics, fewer accounts of adventures in Africa but many discussions on how to make friends, how to influence people, how to conquer...