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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industry to this jacket is Wages & Hours Administrator Elmer F. Andrews, a deceptively mild man who as New York State Commissioner of Industry learned to slap with a gloved hand. On the fifth floor of the Labor Department Building in Washington last week, Elmer Andrews labored at his prodigious task with less than 100 helpers...
Elimination of tooth decay, they warned, is not the task of cooks. "We do not advocate the deletion of cereals from the diet, but rather suggest that measures be directed to removing or inhibiting the offending carbohydrate fractions prior to human consumption." No cure for adults, a strictly regulated diet will be of value only to children. Said the Brothers Belding: "You have to catch them young...
This, of course, is beside the immediate point; it was a stupendous task even to get the scheme under way. Nevertheless, now that a beginning has been made the University should keep a watchful eye focused on the newest of its students' enterprises, helping it over the rough sports, lending it all the advice and assistance which it will accept. Where other persons have talked, this group has acted; and their project, while embryonic at present, bodes well for the future and most not be allowed...
Employing as it does some 2200 workers, more than 400 of whom are engaged in the preparation of food in the Union, House, and Business School halls, the University has necessarily assumed the task of supporting hundreds of families who are dependent upon it for their sole incomes. If the College ventures to undertake this responsibility, ards set by a labor union whose tolerant and honorable methods of bargaining justify the plausi-it is only right that it should meet the high standbility of their claims...
...have it at all. Perhaps we can still find a formula which, in the basic industries at least, will eliminate the evils of destructive competition while securing an adjustment that may be expected to stabilize employment and mass purchasing power. The search for such a rule is the task which has been committed to the Temporary National Economic Committee...