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Because Harvard is an educational institution and therefore renders a public service, the Board decided that the rule cannot apply to the four hundred odd waitresses employed by the University. This decision confirms the findings of the lawyers who were examining the case last week...
This cheerful earful accounted for only part of Detroit's optimism. To most U. S. motormakers 1940 looked great. Some guestimated that 1940 output would jump 15% above 1939. With new cars priced a little lower than 1939's (but facing possible upward revisions), and with the public going strong for the advance models and ordering more, Detroit was sure its new four-wheel debutantes would not be left on the shelf...
...years ago the National Archives in Washington, D. C. dispatched big trucks to the Munitions Building at 20th Street and Constitution Avenue to clear its basement of an all-but-forgotten stock of yellowing records. They were the files of the Committee on Public Information, better known as the Creel Committee of the World War, one of the most successful propaganda ministries of all time. Mysteriously, three-fourths of the files had disappeared...
...news (20,000 columns a week), boiler-plate ads, feature stories by such writers as Mary Roberts Rinehart, Booth Tarkington, Rex Beach. Few have forgotten the CPI's war expositions, its traveling French officers, such stunts as Theda Bara in her Liberty Bond booth before the New York Public Library (receipts: $300,000 in one day). But the most voluminous memory will be surprised at the scope of the CPI in Words that...
Authors Mock & Larson also correct many a misconception about the CPI. One of these is that the Creel Committee was entirely responsible for converting a neutral-minded public into a rabid war mob overnight. A lot of neutrality had crumbled away before George Creel finished it off. From Theodore Roosevelt in Oyster Bay to Ambassador Page in London, most of the "best people" in the U. S. had been pro-Ally from the start. On March 11, "War Sunday" had sounded the call to arms in the nation's churches. Four weeks before war the Railroad Brotherhoods said their...