Word: nationally
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...article by Roger N. Baldwin '04, and Corliss Lamont '24, appearing in the current issue of "The Nation," was originally published in the March number of the "Advocate...
Fear of offending potential contributors to the Tercentenary Fund caused the "Alumni Bulletin" to refuse publication of an account of the radical activities of Harvard graduates, "The Nation," leftist New York weekly, charged last night. Officers of the "Alumni Bulletin" refused to comment on the matter...
Southern Baptists occupied themselves mainly with reports and resolutions. They were pleased to learn that, claiming 4,389,417 enrolled members last year, they were still ahead of the Methodists as the nation's largest non-Catholic body. Contributions to all Southern Baptist work aggregated $26,888,567, an increase of 10% over the year before. Baptist ministerial training was not in such good shape. Last available statistics showed that 64% of Southern Baptist ministers had neither college nor seminary training; only 14% had both. In two nations Baptist mission aries had had their troubles: 1) in Italy where...
...party of men in two groups. One group represented 85% of U. S. railroad operators; the other, 20 of the 21 standard U. S. railroad unions. What President Roosevelt had asked for and what the two groups had after months of difficult negotiation given him was the first national agreement ever made in the U. S. governing the disposition of employes who lose their jobs or are otherwise adversely affected by technological improvements and increased efficiency in industry. Virtually all the nation's major railroads had agreed to pay financial compensation to all such employes in forth coming consolidations...
Until last week Big Business left unchallenged the downright declaration in President Roosevelt's Jefferson Day speech in Manhattan that reduction of manufacturing costs meant not more but less purchasing power for the nation (TIME, May 4). Though the President appeared to contradict himself a few days later at a White House press conference while elaborating upon the high cost of old-fashioned building methods, his statement was overlooked by no alert businessman. Last week in Los Angeles General Motors' Alfred Pritchard Sloan, a representative of an industry whose history is most clearly at variance with the President...