Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME regrets and would amend an injustice to the Briggs company through its failure to mention the improvement of Briggs working conditions since 1933. After the strike of that year, President Walter Owen Briggs, a semi-invalid, came out of retirement, overhauled his management. Such disinterested investigators as Dr. Leo Wolman of Columbia University and Whiting Williams of Cleveland testify that conditions today in the Briggs plants, while not the industry's best, do now pass muster...
...went out to make a sale in his life. Here, on the other hand, was the "Empire Salesman," the ever-young and pepful crowned head. In him Britain had invested millions to build up Edward as Heaven's gift to the masses and to British trade- not to mention women of both hemispheres. Could this investment last week be saved...
...begin to clatter, the provincial Yorkshire Post historically spits out the gag which has kept 99% of His Majesty's subjects in England and India from ever hearing of Mrs. Simpson, much less hearing that the King is resolved to marry her. The Yorkshire Post does not actually mention Mrs. Simpson by name but opens the censorship breach sufficiently for the London Times to "thunder" at the King next morning (still without naming Mrs. Simpson) and for the London News Chronicle, largely owned by the Cadbury's chocolate family, to be the first paper in the Kingdom...
Honorable Mention was received by John A. Moore '38, writing on "The Homeric Hymn to Pan." Other papers were read by John G. Conley '38, Robert J. Cumming '38, and Daniel T. Skinner...
...this age of reckless youth the exponents of authority and prestige are rarely caught endangering their reputations. Age must always balance youth by setting a good example. Even in Harvard temerity is one quality not courted by a professor. Weighted as he is by books and degrees, not to mention years, and redolent of the musty archives of Widener, he generally escapes the prankster proclivity. He, no more than the fun-loving undergraduates, can afford to have his name in the paper in a scandalous fashion. Thus it was with some surprise that the students in History 60a learned yesterday...