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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hour week. This is an average of thirty cents an hour, which is the standard wage for labor of that unskilled type. Whether this wage is in itself too low is a question that may very well be debated, but it is quite universal for labor of that sort, and any institution paying that wage can not be accused of having an "unsavory labor policy." In addition one may add that this wage is the minimum paid to the "chasers" and that some of the salaries are well above this mark...
...Manhattan. Holy Trinity paid its priest $100 a month, which seemed to be enough since, save for his drinks of an evening, he was a man of modest habits. Last week Holy Trinity learned differently when Father Balaban got in trouble with the Law. It was not for the sort of offense-rape, shooting, embezzlement et al.-which lawbreaking parsons commonly commit. On the word of a U. S. Secret Service agent, Father Balaban was a counterfeiter, head of a ring which operatives had been watching for a year...
...game was good from a Harvard viewpoint. In that year the women were as beautiful as ever and besides they were beginning to wear skirts that were not quite so long and from which toes and hints of an ankle were beginning to peek. In Europe there was some sort of a war going on, and people were being killed, and reports from Walter Hines Pages said that things were in pretty nasty shape over there, but in this country everything was all right...
Thus it is sort of hard for the A. A. boys to keep their sense of humor through it all, and a hitherto unpublished story which took place a couple of years ago is applicable at the present moment...
Representatives of the A. F. of L. chosen as bargaining agents by the cooks, bus boys, and waitresses, sat down yesterday around the conference table with Mr. Durant and Mr. Westcott to arrive at some sort of an agreement concerning their mutual problems. Many students will agree that this represents a progressive and far-sighted policy, well in keeping with Harvard's liberal tradition. The meeting yesterday embodied the democratic method of ironing out conflicting interests by rational deliberation...