Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bright spot in NRA's code enforcement week was the case of 4,700 New York Chinese hand laundrymen. Since few of them read English, they were surprised to learn that they were expected to comply with NRA's minimum wage and hour provisions: $6.82 for a 20-hr. week. $12.40 for a 39-hr, week. Most important wage basis in a Chinese laundry is the liberal meal of rice, chop suey and tea served at noon, much relished by the industry's Negro employes. After 15 leading launderers had been summoned for wage violation, Louis Wing, president of Wing...
...busy explaining that he had not been dining secretly with business leaders as the President's contact man, but solely as part of his journalistic job. Said he: "The impressions I gather from my various contacts I make use of in weekly editorials, and these can be read by members of the Administration. In this way and no other am I serving as a means of contact...
Fellow-Poet Mark Van Doren hails Jesse Stuart as an "American Burns." Man with a Bull-Tongue Robert Plow, a collection of 703 sonnetesque verses, sings only homespun heroes, vaunts the excellences of Kentucky farmlife, mourns the mortality of Poet Stuart's love affairs and friends. No book to read through at a sitting, it will prove to the plainest reader that, in Poet Van Doren's words, Stuart is "a rare poet for these times . . . both copious and comprehensible." Some samples of his comprehensible copiosities: Where are the friends of youth I miss ? Elmer and Bert, Oscar...
Dramatic enthusiasts met last night in Eliot House to read Wycherly's "The Country Wife...
Football fans usually like to get just a little technical dope on the team that they watch. The only trouble with supplying them with this information seems to be that the men who write the stories know only a very little more in this department than those who read them...