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...Cherrington of the University of Denver. A onetime University of California football coach whose size (6 ft., 200 Ib.) is calculated to impress Latin Americans, white-mopped, genial Dr. Cherrington, 52, is no doctrinaire. Twelve years ago when Capitalist James Henry Causey, his conscience stricken by the violent Denver tramway strike of 1920, undertook to finance a Foundation for the Advancement of Social Sciences at the University of Denver, he picked Ben Cherrington from a YMCA student job to direct it. Director Cherrington began by asking 150 serious thinkers, including Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Jan Smuts, Harvard...
...majority. In Senator Wagner's eyes this gave employers a chance to play off one set of employes against another. Fortnight ago. just as the Labor Board was being cut loose from NRA. this question came to a head in a labor dispute involving the Denver Tramway Corp. Of its 714 employes, 353 (a plurality) voted to be represented by the Amalgamated Association of Street & Electric Railway Employes. 325 voted for a company union and 36 did not vote. Senator Wagner got the Labor Board (Pierre du Pont, dissenting) to upset the NRA ruling and decide that...
...months the Court had fun until one day the audacious Empress screamed at the height of her haggling, "Your fish are not fresh!" Insulted beyond measure His Majesty broke Her Majesty's arm, declared himself disgusted with fishmongering, asked the French Government to install a tramway in the Palace grounds with himself as motorman...
...Revolution, Comrade Kollontay appeared in the world spotlight as Soviet Commissar of Public Welfare. Upon her was palmed the lie that Russian women had been "nationalized," that she had issued the decree. "Frequently at that time," Comrade Kollontay has said, "I was obliged to leap out of tramway cars when people [Russians] recognized me. I was often forced to listen to the most unbelievable calumnies, the grossest insults...
...Stockport, England, Walter Kynaston, a retired detective, showed friends a picture made of 8,000 canceled tramway tickets which had taken nine months to piece together. "That's how I amuse myself," said...