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...Sumner Slichter, Lamont University Professor, has been appointed along with IT other experts in the fields of engineering, labor, Industrial relations, and economics, to a board which will advise the Mutual Security Agency on its European production assistance drive...
...proposed rate hikes were opposed by Senator Sumner G. Whittler on the grounds that residential customers would be forced to pay for the installation of coin machines in phones which they would never...
...work, the idea of a Trade Union Program did not receive particular attention here until 1941. Some of the ground work for the program had already been laid, however, through a series of weekend labor-management seminars on industrial labor relations sponsored for several years by Lamont University Professor Sumner H. Slichter...
Nowadays students themselves comprise only from 10 to 30 percent of the UT's audience, but the atmosphere is still heavily intellectual. "We're in the peculiar spot," Sumner says, "of having about half our audience wanting us to be an "art house" with single features, but with the other half just the same as other Americans...
...Sumner recalls one instance where sex helped out attendance considerably. "About 15 years ago we had a rather ordinary picture called "The Animal Kingdom" with Leslie Howard as the star. The first day it did just ordinary business, but after that word got out about just one joke in the film and we had hordes of students in for the next two days. The scene that got them was when Howard stepped out on a balcony, took a deep breath, and shouted inside to his house-keepers, "My heavens, James, it's very cold out. You better bring...