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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Dr. Charles Holmes Herty, 70, onetime president (1915-16) of potent American Chemical Society, editor (1917-21) of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry, adviser to Chemical Foundation, Inc.. discoverer of a method for converting the South's cheap slash pine into newsprint; of heart failure; in Savannah, Ga. Mindful of Dr. Herty's revolutionary developments in southern turpentine and pulp industries, grateful Georgians early this year named him "Man of the Year for Georgia and the South," dropped Court House flags to half-mast at his death...
...prices have been too high and would have to come down to assist recovery. Neither this oft-reiterated suggestion nor the fact that steel production last December fell as low as 19% of capacity appeared to dent the steelmasters' contention that prices could not be cut without a slash in wages. But Franklin Roosevelt was also explicitly on the record against wage cutting. In the face of reduced sales and mounting losses ($1,292,151 lost in the first quarter of 1938 against $28,561.533 netted in the first quarter of 1937), U. S. Steel on May 18 reaffirmed...
...provides that no pay cuts or discharges can be made in any department for three months, after that only through arbitration. No editorial salaries can be lowered for one year, but neither can the editorial men strike during that period. The 286 men laid off in a Levi economy slash during the past six months must be given preference when any rehiring is done. Though it did not win a closed shop, the Guild, by winning its first Chicago contract, sunk a deep wedge in the stiff-backed opposition from Chicago publishers...
Reception to the housing message was generally favorable. By week's end, committees in both Houses were busy holding hearings on bills embodying the Administration's plans. Reception to the slash in roads appropriations was exactly the reverse. Congress felt somewhat aggrieved in the first place at being left to wrestle with the nation's business while the President went off on a holiday. A request to cut in half an appropriation for such a valuable vote-getting purpose as highway construction looked like advance preparation for blaming Congress, if it failed to approve...
...process of applying the axe in pro-season sessions, he has had little chance to concentrate on building a coordinated unit for the Tech game. Only Friday he made the last slash in the roster...