Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That Harvard's embarrassing union trouble, bubbling over with threats and accusations a month ago, was now quietly fermenting in the stew of the State Labor Relations Board appeared as only temporary relief in the six-months-old tension last night...
Important cases in other parts of the state were solely responsible for holding up the Board's decision on questions of unfair labor practice here raised over a month ago by Robert H. Everitt, international representative of A. F. of L. Building Service workers...
Round No. 1 was straight Relief. The President asked for an additional appropriation of $1,250,000,000 for WPA for the first seven months of the next fiscal year starting next July. He also asked for an extra $300,000,000 for CCC, National Youth Administration and the Farm Security Administration. The total of $1,550,000,000 would enable the Government to maintain relief expenditures after July 1 at approximately the current rate-$200,000,000 per month...
...China was invaded, has been thankfully accepting from the American Red Cross sums which now total $370,000. Of this $100,000 was appropriated by the American Red Cross from its general fund before the Roosevelt appeal, and another $100,000 was added from the same source early this month. Private donations prior to the appeal amounted to about $50,000. Chairman Davis keeps hearing from U. S. friends of China that, whereas Japan got $10,000,000 after her earthquake, the American Red Cross in the last three decades has sent only about $3,000,000 to succor Chinese...
...Francis E. Townsend, as he arrived in Washington last week to "clean up this contempt business"-i. e., to serve a 30-day sentence for having walked out on a Congressional committee trying to investigate his $200-per-month pension plan, in May 1936-seemed almost eager to get behind bars. He was planning, he said, to work on his autobiography during his incarceration. He scoffed at efforts on the part of Senator William G. McAdoo, who in the past had made no secret of his scorn of Planner Townsend, to get him pardoned...