Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turns out, Sculptor James Fraser, whose Michigan Avenue Bridge reliefs were thought to represent Marquette and La Salle, intended his explorer and monk to be merely allegorical. The city of Chicago will not permit the statuary to be changed...
Under the New Deal the U. S. Government for the first time in its political history has a national labor policy. That policy, however, was codified, in the Wagner Act, two years ago before the Great Schism in U. S. Labor-at a time when men thought there were only two parties to a labor dispute, employer and-employe. But the body that administers this new labor policy-the National Labor Relations Board-soon found that there could be three major parties to a dispute- employer, A. F. of L. and C. I. O., that the greatest bitterness is frequently...
...apology for the shooting two weeks ago of British Ambassador to China Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugesson (TIME, Sept. 6). Reports from London indicated that the reply was not worth waiting for: it contained no formal apology, was patently a Japanese attempt to gain time. The British Cabinet was thought likely to send another ''stiff note...
...Albert Carpenter Kalmbach, who in actual practice would never oil his model locomotives with the full-sized, long-snouted railroad oil can he posed with at Detroit (see cut). When Albert Kalmbach was five years old he made such a remarkable drawing of a locomotive that his teacher thought he was lying when he claimed it as his work. Naturally the costs of model railroading vary according to the individual's means, but The Model Railroader finds that the average hobbyist spends $200 to $250 a year. Typical assembly kit for assembling a baggage coach costs $10.50, a passenger...
...Judge St. Sure who seemed to think the case more serious than Attorney Neylan pretended it was, for he announced that his decision would not be handed down in less than a month. As the courtroom emptied and Herbert Fleishhacker chased after Jack Neylan to find out what he thought the judge would decide, husky young Herbert Jr., onetime Stanford footballer and now manager of an Anglo branch, snorted: ''I want to meet that Frenchman!" When his brother Alan dissuaded him, he pleaded: "Father wouldn't have done anything like that...