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...avowed aim of Congress in 1935, when it passed the Wagner Act. But the 80th Congress now thought that the hard facts of industrial strife had demonstrated the fallacy in congressional thinking twelve years ago. From an annual average of 753 strikes involving 297,000 workers before the NRA, precursor of the Wagner Act, the strike chart had climbed to 4,985 strikes involving 4,650,000 workers in 1946. Annual average of man-days lost before...
...pursued by the Senior group, closely followed by Natural Sciences, and far in the rear was Arts, Letters, and Philosophy. The realm of Social Studies was the training ground for the majority of men planning business careers. This field shared honors with the area of Natural Sciences as the precursor of work in the field of teaching and other professions...
Charges of graft involving Schmitz, Boss Abe Reuf, the Southern Pacific Co.'s subsidiary United Railways (precursor of the Market St. Railway) grew so loud that even tolerant San Franciscans were aroused. The only reason they did not act immediately was because of a louder noise. The earth moved. The city tumbled down in dust and fire. When San Franciscans, recovering from the earthquake, found time, they clapped Reuf in jail...
...countries. Congress, Secretary of State Stettinius, the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the A.P. and the U.P., the Democratic and Republican platforms, and officials of most of the United Nations have resoundingly endorsed it. But last week it suddenly appeared that this universal rosy glow might be only the precursor of a red sky at morning, portent of stormy weather...
...violence and a robust 18th-Century sentiment, as well as the ghostly trappings of Gothic romances. But the novels "were singularly original, poetic and impressive," and Brown "added a third dimension to the Gothic novel; he suffused his mechanical devices with true horrors of the mind. . . . He was a precursor, in more than one respect, of Poe, Melville, Hawthorne and Henry James. Brown represented, in other words, the native American wild stock that produced these splendid blossoms in the course of time...