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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Commenting upon criticisms that the lowest paid workers, the maids, after twenty years service may receive pensions amounting to as little as four dollars a month, University officials stated that most of these employees are married women whose earnings are not the sole support of their families...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Pension Plan Claimed Preferable to Federal System | 3/4/1938 | See Source »

...which holds sole bargaining rights for the kitchen and dining hall workers and is struggling for control of the building service employees, appeared only too aware that the Association was threatening its held on University labor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AF OF L THREATENS STRIKE AS RIVAL UNION ADVANCES | 3/2/1938 | See Source »

...hoped that everyone wishing to live in Hongkew will make friends with the Japanese. Japanese ladies, 150 from the Tokyo High School, well versed in English, are now in Shanghai for the sole purpose of being better acquainted with foreigners. Further details regarding interviews etc. will be furnished . . . in the office of the Secretary to the Commander of the Naval Fleet in Shanghai. "Foodstuffs will be sold at 23½% discount. Saki will be free to those who drink to the health of the Emperor, and a quantity not exceeding two liters [slightly more than ½ gallon] can be taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Gentle Bow | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...Your Punches was taken off the shelf, dusted off, released under its third title, The Kid Comes Back. Less realistic than Kid Galahad, which focused on the chicanery of the fight racket, The Kid Comes Back concerns itself with an aging trial horse of the ring (Barton MacLane), whose sole remaining barrier to the championship is his own protégé (Actor Morris). In setting the stage for the old trial horse to have his day at last, the story permits itself a few trenchant observations about heavyweight champions who retire to Connecticut farms to read Shakespeare, titled Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 14, 1938 | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...ments, L'Epreuve d' Amour) already studded the proposed repertory of the Massine-World-Art company. Besides the exclusive future services of Choreographer Fokine, the Obolensky-de Basil company acquires the bulk of the present repertory costumes and scenery of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo; claims sole right to the use of the term "Ballet Russe" Both factions are proceeding to gird themselves for rival U. S. tours next season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ballet War | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

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