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...After a stint on the Sunday Dispatch he joined the Sunday Express, in November 1930, began writing "Sitting On The Fence" for Express readers, who immediately began to lob indignant letters into the Express office. Nat Gubbins kept at it, slowly acquired his present tremendous following...
...kind of place in which you pull fast ones." But he was allowed to dispatch more human interest and feature material than the newspapermen. He had to submit to double censorship (press & radio) and walk several miles through deep snow and blackout to the studios to do his stint...
Bojangles Bill Robinson, past master of the soft shoe routine, packed the Hasty Pudding Club last night in a show for the Naval Training School. There was standing room only in the auditorium as 400 Navy men and their guests watched Bill take time off from his stint at the Mayfair to entertain with his inimitable tapping...
...member to work at the same speed. Thus while every factory pays piece rates, practically all banding department men earn $7.92 a day, all truck tire builders $8.90 a day. The men could earn more by turning out more units. But when one company wanted to boost the daily stint to 169 tire bands per man per day the union squashed it to 143 per day. Reason: a few men might not make the grade and get less money than others...
...Washington the Secretary of the Navy has also turned in a magnificent performance within his native limitations. He has courage-he did not try to cover up the bungling which was responsible for Pearl Harbor-and he has energy, which he gives to his job without stint. As the U.S. is now organized for war he may be doing as well as any Secretary could. Some day he may even give his Navy Department a reorganization-and continue to be the same kind of Navy Secretary that...