Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week Chicagoans were still chuckling over capers of another sort. Henry Field,** grandnephew of the late Marshall Field and curator of physical anthropology at the Field Museum, had given a party with a friend at their Lake Shore Drive apartment. Guests, asked to bring live animals, turned up with a deodorized skunk, a singing duck, two colored baby chickens worn on a woman's hat, a white rat which bore a litter of ten during the party. Anthropologist Field's contributions: 1) a seal which he could not get into the freight elevator; 2) an un- housebroken...
...Still hopeful of bringing businessmen and schoolmen closer together, Professor Mort appointed a committee to clarify the issues. The committee needed ten topics and 24 subdivisions to catalogue the disagreements. Last week the four businessmen and three educators sat down before an audience of professors and students in Columbia's Milbank Chapel to thresh the matter out. Flanking Dean Russell, they sprawled in their chairs, wriggled and squirmed, stared at the ceiling, never got beyond Subdivision 3 of Topic I. Crux of the argument was not education but the "private enterprise system" v. "planned economy...
...vote was only the first step of a procedure which may take six months to work out under the complex machinery provided by the Railway Labor Act. And the unions might still strike when this arbitration period ended. Said Railway Labor's spokesman, Chairman George Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives Association last week: "Wage cuts are out of the question...
...unfair trade practices, 24 of these were speedily agreed on and outlawed, the list ranging from defamation of competitors to tampering with speedometers. Only major point the dealers refused to concede was the price-fixing of trade-in values. This FTC is eager to forbid and may still do, but the dealers maintained that this stabilization of trade-ins was all that prevented ruinous price-wars...
...Last year there was no drought and therefore U. S. trade figures for the first quarter of 1938, released last week by the Department of Commerce, again recorded a favorable balance. What was more, the balance was a sizable $320,662,000. Reasons for this were simple: 1) Though still a half less than in the first quarter of the 1929 boom, the volume of U. S. foreign trade has nearly doubled since 1932; 2) more or less stable business conditions abroad plus vast rearming programs have kept foreign buying of U. S. goods steady while U. S. buying...