Word: requesters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Note--The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer, will names be withheld...
Clara Leiser, author of "Jean de Reszke and The Great Days of Opera," just published, admits to some other amazing experiences in gathering material for the book. Following her published request for information about Jean and Edouard de Reszke, her correspondence grew to a point where she had to have a full time stenographer to handle it. Offers of marriage, free singing lessons, and invitations to collaborate on books which other teachers and singers wanted to write, poured in. One of Edouard's girl friends changed her will so that all the photogaphs, jewelry, letters, etc., that Edouard had given...
BEWILDERED business men, fully aware that the government has the power of virtual confiscation and that they must comply with the edicts of the NRA, are nevertheless frankly asking how they are going to fulfill the request of the administration that hours be shortened and wages not merely spread among more workers but actually increased...
...group meetings of the code authorities, Dr. Hettinger, one of the NRA's own economists, in a frank debate with General Johnson questioned the soundness of the latter's request that hours be decreased and payrolls augmented too. The objection made was against any inflexible rule or percentage. It was asserted that the consumer industries are in good shape and that less than ten per cent of the unemployed today are from those consumer businesses, whereas reliable figues show that 90 per cent of the idle originally were at work in heavier industries or service businesses related to them...
...Note--The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer, will names be withheld...