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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee will consist of President Conant, Merle Fainsod, instructor in Government, Felix Frankfurter, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, Richard V. Gilbert '23, instructor in Economics, Henry M. Hart, Jr. '26, assistant professor of Law, Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government, Edwin Mims, Jr., instructor in Government, Sumner H. Slichter, professor of Business Economics, Alan R. Sweezey '29, instructor of Economics, and John H. Williams, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy...
...took the bread knife and obliged her. He was the first man to be condemned to death in Buffalo in six years. It was the duty of the sheriff to hang him. The young sheriff went home to his mother Ann, widow of a Presbyterian parson, in Holland Patent; N. Y., to ask what he should do. She advised him to pay a deputy $10 to act as hangman. He replied that he would not ask another man to do a dirty job like that...
...With an enthusiasm which reminded observers of Philadelphia's election night spree and subsequent victory parade, thousands of clerks, teamsters, chauffeurs, bookkeepers and many an unorganized salesgirl, buyer, janitor and elevator operator walked out with the warehousemen. Around Gimbel's, Strawbridge & Clothier's, Lit's, N. Snellenburg's and Frank & Seder's marched mass picket lines with placards demanding more pay, better working conditions, union recognition. Read one placard: "Salesgirls on strike. Could you live on $12 a week...
Died. Oris Paxton Van Sweringen, 67, last of Cleveland's realty and railroad-owning Van Sweringen Brothers; of heart disease; while riding to Hoboken, N. J. from Cleveland where he boarded a train of the Nickel Plate road, which the brothers built into the largest privately held U. S. rail system, nearly lost during Depression...
...learn the family business, but his deep religious feeling has found outlets in innumerable charities and philanthropies. Cultured, musical, humorous, an inveterate joiner, he lives half the year in a big mansion on Manhattan's East 66th Street, half the year on an estate in Sea Bright, N...