Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cauldron. Rare news last week was a move toward industrial peace, made when Remington Rand's hard-boiled President James H. Rand Jr., after defying a National Labor Relations Board order to reinstate and bargain with 4,000 of his employes who have been on strike since last May (TIME, March 22), visited Secretary of Labor Perkins in Washington and worked out a settlement with which she announced herself "extremely well pleased." Less pleased with Mr. Rand's terms, the strike leaders pondered, postponed acceptance. Elsewhere in the seething cauldron of U. S. Labor...
...addition there is a paid reporter to cover all contests, and considerable space is allotted in the Yale NEWS for College athletics. Yale's intramural budget has between $18,400 and $19,400 annually. At present approximately $4,000 is spent by the University on Harvard House athletics...
...presages a genuine revival of interest, the cause of debating at Harvard can take heart. For the Debating Council has come perilously near to allowing the sport to die a slow and lingering death, and any measures that can be adopted to stimulate more general interest come as welcome news to all who care for the argumentative...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news...
...Plow it under!" advised Colonel Frank Knox's Chicago Daily News last week as the cheesemaking farmers of Green County gathered at tiny (pop. 644) Monticello, Wis. to do something about their 1,000,000-lb. limburger surplus, which was threatening to knock the bottom out of the limburger market (now 15? per lb.). Source of three-fourths of the nation's annual 11,000,000-lb. of limburger supply, Green County's farmers did not take the News's suggestion. Instead they declared a holiday. For 46 days until May 1 no new limburger will...