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...Upshot was that President Roosevelt personally requested the steelmasters to keep their plants closed until his Steel Mediation Board had done its work. And Ohio's Governor Davey dispatched 4,800 militiamen into the Mahoning & Trumbull Counties with orders to preserve the status quo. The plants stayed closed and, rare in U. S. history, the strikers greeted the arrival of troopers with loud cheers...
...lectures, concerts, meetings, all labelled "educational programs." Most of these are "sustaining" (non-sponsored) and of widely varying quality. When schoolmen and radiomen met last year at the call of the U. S. Office of Education and the Federal Communications Commission for a conference on educational broadcasting in Washington, upshot was that educators wanted more radio time, networks wanted better programs. This week Counsellor Angell will sit down with Lenox Lohr to learn about his new job which starts in September, and to which he will bring the administrative experience not only of a University president but of a onetime...
...Chief upshot of the long-drawn war for the steamy Gran Chaco between Bolivia and Paraguay was that in both Republics the constitutional governments were overthrown, replaced by tight little military- fascist juntas. Last week in La Paz the Bolivian junta headed by excitable Colonel Jose David Toro capitalized on the scare that its overthrow was being plotted by Standard Oil Co. (N. J.). To President Toro, as that shrewd politico had foreseen, came prompt reassurances from the Government-organized syndicates of workers, miners and railway workers pledging all their strength to fend off any such attempt...
...years ago Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King of Canada paid a social visit at the White House, for no ostensible reason except friendship. The prompt upshot was the U. S.-Canadian reciprocal trade agreement. Last week, on the eve of another visit by Mr. King, the press asked President Roosevelt what he and the Prime Minister expected to discuss. Was it by any chance a new St. Lawrence Waterway Treaty? The President waved this suggestion aside. The subjects of discussion, he declared expansively, would include ''North, Central and South America and the world in general...
...University of Chicago (TIME, April 22, 1935). Uncle Charles found out that Niece Lucille's reading list in a social science course included books about Soviet Russia in addition to such standbys as Herbert Hoover's American Individualism and Walter Lippmann's A Preface to Morals. Upshot was he decided to withdraw her from school, charged she had been "insidiously exposed" to Communist "influences." A great press uproar and a State Senate investigation followed, but nothing much besides froth came of the whole thing...