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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...compromise labor legislation setting up the present Labor Relations Board. His bill last week proposed to make the Labor Relations Board supreme arbiter over all labor boards, give it power to enforce the policy of giving unions which can poll a majority of the workers in a plant the right to bargain for all the plant's workers. The American Federation of Labor favors such a policy, but not President Roosevelt who has made it clear that 1) he favors proportionate representation in collective bargaining; 2) he intends to support the Automobile Labor Board which is setting up such...
...part of Representative Bob Doughton's Congressional district. As a young lawyer he was picked by the late Richard J. Reynolds and brought up in the tradition of the company that makes Camels: a company in which every director is a salaried officer and gets down to the plant in the morning at the same hour as the men. That tradition does not make spectacular executives. Mr. Williams in due time became president of Reynolds Tobacco, had a 1,800-acre farm with blooded cattle down on the Yadkin River and got to work...
Also last week the Board effected a neat propaganda coup at the Packard plant in Detroit. For nation-wide consumption, Francis E. Ross, accounting professor at the University of Michigan who is in charge of the elections, carefully explained for the newsreels the mechanics of the balloting as pictures were taken of Packard workers going to the polls. The Packard vote, a primary election to select 40 men to run for places on a 20-man collective bargaining agency, went: 2,657 for unaffiliated candidates; 2,131 for company union candidates; no for the A. F. of L. union...
...lighter-than-airmen, she ordered the R-100 scrapped, has built none since. Only country to pursue the development is Germany, where the huge Hindenburg is soon to be launched as a running mate to the eminently successful Graf Zeppelin. This summer the Navy plans to lend its Lakehurst plant to the Zeppelin company as a U. S. terminal for an experimental transatlantic mail & passenger service...
...heard that, he hastened upstairs to find Assistant Curator J. Eric Thompson of Central & South American Archeology brandishing a cluster of knotted strings. Few of the world's museums have even one quipu, and probably none has more than two. A quipu is a long cord, made of plant fibre, to which are tied other cords. The ancient inhabitants of Peru used them to count population, military reinforcements, llama flocks. Knots in the dependent cords represent units of 100, 10 and 1, depending on position. "An expedition might spend months working in Peru," exulted Director Simms, "without finding...