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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Friday, April 21, W. R. Whitney, formerly Director of Research, General Electric Company, will speak on "The Relation of Science to Industry." On Friday, April 28, Sidney Hillman, president of Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, will speak on "A Shorter Working Day and a Minimum Wage" and Spencer Miller, Jr., secretary of Workers' Educational Bureau of America on "The Challenge to Labor of the New Leisure." On Friday, May 5, F. M. Davenport, congressman from New York, will speak on "The Magnitude of the Politician's Task...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHITEHEAD GIVES ADDRESS TONIGHT IN BAKER LIBRARY | 4/13/1933 | See Source »

President Lowell announced last night the first five appointees to the new Society of Fellows. The initial group of men will form the nucleus of the "Junior Fellows" and assume their fellowships next fall. Those designated by the Corporation: Garrett Birkhoff '32 of Cambridge, John Chester Miller '30 of Tacoma, Washington, Willard Van Orman Quine, Oberlin '30, of Akron, Ohio, Burrhus Frederic Skinner, Hamilton '26, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Frederick Mundell Watkins '30, of Providence, Rhode Island. The three men from Harvard were graduated summa cum laude...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Five Men Chosen To Form Nucleus For Society of Fellows | 4/12/1933 | See Source »

...Handle of the Wallace pitchfork is the Secretary's power to tax. To raise money to pay land rents and Domestic Allotment "benefits" he may levy on every bushel of wheat the miller turns to flour, on every pound of pork and beef the packer turns to ham and steak, on every quart of milk and cream that go into butter and cheese, on every pound of cotton the spinner makes into cloth. This processing tax, heart of the Roosevelt relief scheme, is a variable quantity which the Secretary of Agriculture adjusts to bring farm prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Senate v. Sun | 4/10/1933 | See Source »

General American Tank Car Corp. last week announced contracts to furnish refrigerator cars to Schlitz, Pabst. Blatz, Miller (Milwaukee). Schoenhofen and Prima (Chicago), Goetz (St. Joseph, Mo.): had already reconditioned 500 of its 20,000 refrigerator cars for beer and expected to need 2,000 for the beer trade (in pre-Prohibition days Milwaukee shipped 43,000 carloads of beer a year). General Tank likewise laid plans for special tank cars similar to 300 once used to ship California wine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Resurrection | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

Fourth great Milwaukee brewery is Miller, of which Fred Miller is president, with the management in the hands of stocky, black-headed W. H. Kraft whose father has been for many years brewmaster, whose brother is chemist of the firm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Resurrection | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

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