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...Detroit last week, in the biggest mass layoff of Recession, President William S. Knudsen of General Motors announced that 30.000 of the company's 235,000 employes would be laid off as of January 3 and that employes who remained on the payroll would operate on a threeday, 24-hr, week...
...each plunked down $500 for the privilege of making the first trip on the first regular air-service across the North Atlantic. With free baggage weight limited to a meagre 40 lb., they waited eagerly to board the Hindenburg, Germany's newest and largest dirigible, scheduled for a threeday, non-stop voyage to Lakehurst...
Already alarmed at the reported size of the country's floating population, the Senators got a fresh shock when Columbia University's Sociologist Nels Anderson told them that many of the nomads are girls. On the basis of a threeday, four-city survey made three weeks ago he estimates a transient U. S. population of some 165,000 boys and 100,000 girls under...
...vote could be taken of all the Americans who have sojourned in the Philippine Islands for two years or more during the period of American occupation, I venture the assertion that 90% would agree on certain fundamental points. The temerity and absurdity of shooting a "threeday" opinion in the face of such unanimity is apparent. One Francis Burton Harrison essayed to ignore the opinions of all Americans resident in the Philippines, as well as the written instructions of the Secretary of War, and he found that he had been looking down the wrong end of the telescope. Not only...
...legal and ethical rights of the subject people and also with due regard to the racial prejudices existing on both sides of the fence. That these prejudices are real and in some particulars vital, any resident of Mississippi, California, or Manila can explain. They require statesmanlike consideration, not "threeday" vaporings. These things may appear different in Dubois, Wyoming but in Singapore, Saigon, or Manila a condition must be faced and dealt with, empty ballyhoo will not suffice...