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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unreconstructed New York Sun for once thundered for what appeared to be a majority: "THE CALLOUS SELFISHNESS OF JOHN L. LEWIS. When a union calls a nationwide strike . . . that is bound to affect millions " . . that union must be prepared to submit a strong case to the public. . . . What sort of case has John L. Lewis? ... He is willing to see 400,000 miners quit work and millions of the public deprived of the necessaries of life . . . but he is not willing to see his labor empire threatened, even remotely, by a rival...
...those who commute 68 per cent use the schools; 77 per cent of those living in Houses have done some sort of tutoring, and 98 per cent who live in Cambridge private houses have used the schools...
...fielder of the World Champion New York Yankees; and Dorothy Arnold, 20, screen & radio performer. Said Joe's hearty, well-publicized mother, a resident of San Francisco's Beach Street: "Joe no say a thing to me. No talk of this love business." Said Miss Arnold: "We sort of started to go around together and the first thing we knew-or at least that I knew-it was getting hotter." The announcement was hardly out when Centre Fielder Di Maggio, chasing a fly ball, hurt his ankle, was expected to be out of action for ten days...
Electric Animals. Anatomist Harold Saxton Burr of Yale last week showed motion pictures of himself spinning an embryo salamander on a turntable. He was not spinning it in order to make the unborn salamander dizzy - but to show that its tiny body possessed a sort of electrical shadow, that it could be used like a piece of electrical apparatus. The spinning salamander induced a feeble electric current in a wire, just as a big steam generator creates a big current...
...Central Square organizations which really want the housing project to go through. Mayor Lyons apparently is blocking the bill because it has, as one of the conditions of the grant, federal control of the project, and the Mayor is used to handing out political plums on jobs of this sort. It is up to the people of Cambridge to sign the petition and to prove to the Mayor that they want the housing project, and that they want it without plum trees. With the mayoralty election coming up next fall, it is hard to conceive of Mayor Lyons deliberately opposing...