Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...union heads chose industrial insurance rather than ordinary life, fire, etc., because they thought industrial agents would have more grievances, would be more amenable to union advances. The agents shortly verified this premise. In affidavits submitted to NLRB and New York State Labor Relations Board, in testimony before a New York legislative committee, they declared themselves to be pitifully chivvied, hounded into hounding impoverished clients. A Metropolitan agent in New York City, Benjamin Klein, testified that his district manager punished him for lagging sales by making him don a dunce cap inscribed, "I am lousy, I am a louse," required...
...Queried by newshawks about the authority for his hint, Air. Ickes replied, "I thought it all up myself. I didn't ask Papa...
...sahibs of the British colony in Singapore had thought it bad enough some years ago when the Sultan married (and subsequently divorced) a Scotswoman who had been the wife of a Singapore physician. A cabaret-girl-Sultana the sahibs considered quite impossible. Social royalists, they ganged up and put moral pressure on the precedent-breaking Sultan by unanimously refusing his invitations, although Miss Hill was properly chaperoned at the palace by her mother. The Sultan had his revenge, by ordering the sahibs off his golf course, their children away from his bandstand...
Like a well-spread buffet lunch, there was food for every thought in last week's business figures. The stockmarket slipped badly one day, steadied the next, ended about on the same level (140.24 on the Dow-Jones industrial averages) it had maintained for two weeks. Some thought this was a lull before a reaction, others declared it a pause while business caught up. Meanwhile, steel production rose again, reaching 39.8% of capacity, an eleven-point rise since prices were cut June 24. Lumber production and wholesale food prices were also up. Freight loadings were off more than seasonally...
Last month the trustees thought they had found their man: Rev. John Crocker, 38, studious, absentminded, enthusiastic high Churchman, Episcopal Chaplain of Princeton University, a graduate of Groton. Harvard (where he played end on the football team), Oxford. Grotties speak of "Jack" Crocker as logical successor to Groton's 80-year-old Headmaster Endicott Peabody; and he himself has declined nomination for the bishoprics of New Jersey and Vermont. Last week, after long pondering St. Paul's School's offer, he returned a nolo docere, turned down...