Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into Line. First to submit a model code was the cotton textile industry, through a committee said to represent two-thirds of the textile millers. Pending approval in public hearing June 27, the code provides a minimum wage of $10 a week in southern mills. $11 in the north, a 44-hr, week, and acknowledgement of employes' right to collective bargaining. The coal men in Chicago were preparing a code. The American Petroleum Institute was also doing spadework in Chicago, while to Washington the independents sent their own recommendations. At Bloomfield, Ind., 30 Indiana limestone producers agreed...
Eloped. Stevens H. Hammond, 23, Chicago sportsman and socialite, vice president of Whiting Corp. (steel); and one Madelyn La Salle, model who posed for Sculptor John H. Storrs's figure of Ceres on the Chicago Board of Trade Building; in Chicago...
...with a second-rate engine in the teeth of a blizzard, swore he would get to division point on time; he drove the train recklessly through the storm. The conductor was worried. At Avondalc they had to stop to pick up a single passenger- Everett Jason, a long-repressed model husband who was methodically running away from his wife. Martin Knox, criminal lawyer, was bringing a secret star witness back East: red-headed Lena Karelsen, whose evidence would free his gunman client, smash the political ring. Three people were on Knox's trail: Representative Tom Linscott, mouthpiece...
...Earl Sparling blatantly exaggerated the House of Morgan's "control" of everything John Doe eats, drinks and uses. Ruth Finney was permitted to shrill: "They [Morgan & Co.] can regiment something like $53,000,00,.000 to do their bidding." Another story bitterly inventoried the Morgan expenditures on yachts, model farms, grouse shoots, British charities for the non-tax-payment years...
...feared pedagogs were neglecting the bright students who, if given the chance, could strike out for themselves and get ahead of their duller fellows. Democracy was a good thing, but applied to education it dragged the able men down. Dr. Aydelotte would reprieve democracy from mediocrity. Oxford was his model, where well-bred young men did not "take courses" but studied subjects whole with their tutors and, on their own initiative, went to lectures when they felt like it, getting their work up not in term-time but during vacations. He observed that Rhodes Scholars went to Oxford full...