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...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...
...speechless awe with which Crimson fans watched their team slash the paws, face, and body of the Tiger that deserves recognition. It is not the spontaneous victory march after the game, in which every true Harvard man joined, overjoyed that he had seen a defeat that was a defeat of a major foe. Nor the individual playing of certain members of the backfield and line. All these considering the distressful circumstances which have piled high around Cambridge football in the past four years, were to be expected...
...onetime Democratic Senator James A. Reed welcomed the lawyers to Kansas City, saying, "In this strange period in our history, the body politic is chained to the political operating table and the dreamers of dreams and the seers of visions are permitted at will to cut and probe and slash the helpless victim." Two days later Nebraska's anti-New Deal Senator Edward R. Burke appealed to the legal profession's self-pity: "There was a time when the banker was the favorite 'whipping boy.' The welts of the lash upon the . . . banker...