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...methods for averting a strike under the Railway Labor Act have been exhausted, so the special Presidential commission has been called in to suggest compromise to both sides...
...unions contend that the possibility of such legislation, and even the present Railway Labor Act, gives management the upper hand. "If the government instead lets the railroad management know, firmly and unmistakably, that the railroad workers' right to strike is not going to be abolished, then management would have made a fair offer and this dispute would be settled: now," a union spokesman said last week...
Puck & Pan. He arrived at Cambridge with a scholarship at Trinity. "A shy prig," is his own description; too shy to ask where the toilets were, he walked to the one at the railway station. At Trinity, dons were gargling grace in two alternate systems of Latin pronunciation; the junior dean had to be eased out because, though his sermons were eloquent, he had become crippled by syphilis and had raped his daughter. The master was another kind of monster-a snob. Yet this cloister now housed some of the brightest spirits...
...stay tied to France. Neighboring Ethiopia, which contains large numbers of Afars, backs the tribe's cause in French Somaliland. More than tribal loyalty is involved: Ethiopia has a sound economic motive in not wanting its outlet to the Gulf of Aden, a 486-mile narrow-gauge railway from Addis Ababa to Djibouti, to be controlled by the hostile government of Somalia...
Pitts assumed that "the stature and competence of Monro" had attracted the gift to Miles. The gift, he said, was an appropriate memorial to Howe, in view of his interest in Negro education. "Howe might have been descended from New England families who were active in the underground railway in earlier times," he said of Howe's interest in civil rights...