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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Seventh District voters chose Billy Connery's successor: a bald, magnetic, music-loving Irishman. Add seven years to and subtract about 15 pounds from Lawrence J. ("Larry") Connery and the result is a twin for his late brother Billy, whom he had served as secretary since 1922. Nineteen years ago Sergeant Billy refused a promotion because it entailed separation from Sergeant Larry. Both became lawyers after they reached Washington. Last year Billy swamped his Republican opponent by a 3-2 margin; last week Larry won by 3-2. His first official announcement: he would re-introduce...
...expedition is a direct result of the discussions arising at the International Symposium on Early Man, held at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia in celebration of its 125th anniversary last March...
...distasteful institution (TIME, June 8, 1936). Since then, jobs have been found for some 23,000 Mormons, the Church has taken over the support of 30,000. Most of the idle were given agricultural work and 24 big regional warehouses have been built to store produce which is the result of redoubled Mormon husbandry. In and around Salt Lake City, 125,000 Mormons were urged last fortnight to observe a special fast, abstaining from two meals and donating the money toward construction of more warehouses for current bumper crops...
During the six-week decline no less than $15,000,000,000 in paper values have been wiped out. And the state of paper values has a potent influence on the state of public spending. As a result, retail stores began to worry over fall sales. Estimates for fall steel production were revised from 75% of activity to 70%. New financing was postponed. And the National Association of Purchasing Agents, cagiest of all buying groups, saw fit to warn that buying should be "conservative" when there was so much uncertainty, even though there is "no real fear of a serious...
...There is resistance [on the part of employers], not to collective bargaining per se, but to what lies behind it. Unfortunately, to many employers, it looks as if any invitation, either of labor to management or of management to labor, to sup at a common table is likely to result noc only in the disappearance of the food but also of the dishes, and in the destruction of the table as well...