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...stockbroker, was made Minister of Labor last year brands National Government a sham. To Conservatives nothing seems more right and proper. They assume that Oliver Stanley is briskly, but not too briskly, on his way to becoming Prime Minister.* Last week he stumbled, and swank Mayfair was pained. In Sheffield fierce riots broke out, all because the new Minister of Labor was not quite clicking...
...down the land Anglican churchmen had come out with the proletariat for what they called a square deal, and National Government, frightened last week, were trying to give it in hot haste. None too soon. Day after Major Stanley suspended the hated new Dole regulations, famed Sheffield's silver-plating and cutlery-fashioning proletariat ran amuck around the City Hall, flung brickbats through the windows when the Sheffield City Council refused to receive a delegation of unemployed demanding still more Dole, beat up nine policemen...
...milk the cream machine can make approximately one-half pint of coffee cream for 6¢less than half the cost of a half-pint of dairy cream. Heavy cream which sells for 22¢ per half pint can be made for 9¢. Big milk & cream retailers like Borden and Sheffield Farms snorted last week at the idea that the cream machine will cut into their cream sales. It is merely a gadget, say they, which will be laid to rest on the kitchen shelf after the novelty is worn...
...first apartment buildings built on Chicago's Gold Coast. There they reared their son Sam who probably had the finest set of electric trains in existence at the time. Later they sent him to St. Paul's School for polish, to Sheffield Scientific School at Yale to prepare for his job as crown prince of the Insull empire. Meanwhile Samuel Insull, a forbidding man in dealing with his public but well liked by his immediate associates, used to go to his mahogany-panelled office in Commonwealth Edison Co. at 7:10 every morning. Being English, he could...
...vanished. No longer are a student's friends confined to his own class, but they are scattered among the upper three classes. In my time one very seldom made close contact with anyone unless he was of the same class. The other outstanding change, is the amalgamation of the Sheffield Scientific School with the academic college...