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When Section 7a was written into the National Industrial Recovery Act two years ago, observers agreed that A. F. of L., whose membership had declined 38% since its peak in 1920, had been handed something very handsome on a silver platter. What neither William Green nor his lieutenants foresaw was that in guaranteeing all workers the right to organize, the Federal Government could not guarantee to organize them for A. F. of L. The A. F. of L. would have to show a little ability on its own account. Despite the fact that A. F. of L. elaborately pretended...
...producers equally dismayed by the flood of duty-free sugar coming thence, Congress at last offered the Philippines their freedom, after a ten-year trial period. Out from under the first offer Philippine politicians managed to wriggle. When it was renewed last spring, and served up on a silver platter by Franklin Roosevelt himself, the Philippines did not have the heart to refuse...
...Manhattan's Spanish Restaurant El Chico: Spanish peas (garbanzos), cabbage, potatoes, one fowl, beef (1 to 2 lb.), ham (cubed, about ½lb.), spanish sausage (chorizos), lare onion, tomato, pinch of saffron, salt & pepper. Boil slowly for two hours. Serve fowl, beef, ham and sausage on separate platter, garnished with vegetables. Serve broth separately...
With Labor in a pettish temper, the President sped Secretary Perkins off to San Francisco to address the convention. Her audience was friendly but far from enthusiastic when she keynoted: "We cannot expect the Roosevelt Administration or any other Administration to give us the millennium on a silver platter...
...sour milk and special "limed milk." There are eggs, fish, vegetables & fillers. For dessert Main Line dogs may have a Large Bone (5? ). Other prices vary with the market. The standard platter weighs 1 lb., ordinarily sells for 12? or 13? raw and 15? cooked. One of them usually lasts a Sealyham or spaniel two days but a Great Dane or setter wolfs several per day. Puppies and invalids, which need more food oftener, are served daily by the "Puppy Special." The new plant at Oakmont has been made ultra-sanitary, equipped with cutting, cooking, packing, snipping and reception rooms...