Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less than that of grey William Knudsen was young Homer Martin's viewpoint explicit in his career. He had known anti-union discrimination and the nerve-racking speed-up at first hand. He had seen automobile Labor, with a scattering of small unions, repeatedly frustrated and defeated in its attempts to right its wrongs. It was obviously presumptuous of him to demand, when he could not even claim to represent a majority of G. M. employes, that his union be recognized as sole bargaining agency for them all. But if there was to be industrial democracy...
Back to London hurried Mr. Duff Cooper, and it remained to be seen whether he could kindle the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin into an enduring flame, or whether the Prime Minister would ignite and then gradually sputter out as he did when he was briefly lit on the Ethiopian "Deal" by Sir Samuel Hoare (TIME, Dec. 30, 1935 et ante). Sparks flew in Downing Street last week with two "emergency meetings" of His Majesty's Government within 48 hours, and by the time Mr. & Mrs. Baldwin left to weekend in the country with the King & Queen, the more combustible...
Providence, R. I., Jan. 12--Harvard's fast-skating hockey team smothered a courageous but disorganized Bruin ice squad in Providence last night 7-1, in a game climaxed by as fast a closing period as has been seen here for some time...
...Conant's letter reinforces the contention of those who insist that the time has come to provide for new ways of selecting the members of the board of regents. Incidentally, if Governor La Follette had seen his way clear to press first for a change in the board of regents and delay the action against Dr. Frank, he would have been proclaimed as the defender of academic freedom. Instead he has allowed himself, perhaps unjustly, to be branded as a politician glad to see one of his enemies "embarrassed," even if in the process his state university is subjected...
...might get up a crap game with Jones and his roomies if you are hard put. There are also several good shows in town. I can recommend "Frederika", "Blossom Time", "Fulton of Oak Falls", and "Jane Eyre", having seen them all myself during Reading Period. You know the night spots yourself. They aren't much but you can lose your more weighty cares among them...