Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt yesterday appointed James McC. Landis, Dean of the Law School, to a three-man commission to investigate the wage dispute in the railroad industry. Other members of the group are Chief Justice Walter P. Stacy of the North Carolina Supreme Court, chairman, and Professor Harry A. Millis of the University of Chicago...
Dean Landis could not be reached last night for a statement. Under the provisions of the Railroad Labor Law the commission must report within thirty days...
Although the college is usually very strict about the necessity of registering on time, Dean Hanford yesterday said that excuses for tardiness because of the weather would still be accepted. The New Haven railroad is running several trains a day now from New York, the trip involving the necessity of going from New London to Westerly by bus, and several highways into New England are open...
...they had drawn up a series of resolutions which opposed virtually everything except: 1) "the American system of free enterprise"; 2) "active and immediate cooperation of labor, business, agriculture, and Government"; 3) "fundamental principles of anti-trust laws"; 4) "immediate nonpolitical solution of the present deplorable railroad situation...
When his uncle died, Stoyan went to Montana as water boy to a railroad construction gang. He and a friend made the 1,500-mile trip in dilapidated boxcars outfitted as bunkhouses, which whipped over the tracks like a snake, threatening momentarily to fall to pieces. But the Balkan occupants had no qualms at all. If the Chewtobaccos, the big bosses, said they were safe, they must be safe. Their faith in democracy was often demonstrated just as literally. Because a giant worker heard that workers were equal with the rich, he carried a mattress, white sheets, wore silk pajamas...