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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Years hence, when John Llewellyn Lewis looks back from a dazzling height or a dark depth at the first week of July 1937, he may well mark it as a turning point in his remarkable career. It was the week in which Public Opinion, veering away from both Labor and Management in sheer irritation with their five-week wrangle on the Steel Front, was summed up by Labor's great friend Franklin Roosevelt in Shakespeare's phrase...
...years ago the proposal by a more radical faction to establish in one comprehensive agreement a 40-hour week for all workers was accepted ''in principle" by the Conference. This year this group was more precise in its demands. The mark it shot at was a 40-hour week for textile, chemical, printing industries throughout the world. Stanchest supporters of this scheme were the U. S. delegates, including Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward Francis McGrady who had to rush back to Washington to deal with U. S. strikes when the Conference was not quite half over; French Labor...
...final practice Spins. Thus fortified, Harvard's varsity next day launched into a low, calm, powerful stroke, let Yale spend itself in a gallant first two miles. Midway up the Thames, Harvard led by a length, was gaining at 30 strokes to the minute. At the three-mile mark Yale frantically went to 34, then to 36, but Tom Bolles's first Crimson crew, ably stroked by Jim Chace, plowed impressively on to victory and a new course record of 20 min. 2 sec. for the four miles upstream...
Despite the dogged conviction of the late, high-domed Publicist Arthur Brisbane that high-domed foreheads are a mark of superior intelligence, a mass of evidence has been assembled by scientists to show that, so far as living members of the species Homo sapiens are concerned, no connection can be traced between intellectual ability and the size or shape of the skull. Eskimos have bigger heads than civilized whites but no one argues that they are any smarter. Nevertheless it is a fact that the skull size of man in general has increased with progress up the evolutionary scale...
...accumulated enough capital to set up two charcoal-fired forges of his own where Hay Creek entered the Schuylkill half-dozen miles south of Reading. From these two forges sprang the present town of Birdsboro and the Birdsboro Steel Foundry & Machine Co. William Bird's eldest son Mark added other forges, a rolling mill, slitting mill and what is believed to be the first U. S. nail factory. By the Revolution he was wealthy enough to outfit 300 men to aid Washington after the Battle of Brandywine. Continental Congress minutes record fat payments to Birdsboro for munitions...