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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cost of living has now risen and is still rising in France at such a rate that wages must obviously be further raised- members of the Chamber took time out recently to raise their own pay-and the new charter adopts a variant of the system existing in Belgium, where most labor contracts provide for automatic revision of wages up or down in step with the price index...
Taken out of its context, a statement such as the following sounds rather optimistic: "Democracies sift the opinions and beliefs of all with the end in view of determining the state program by selecting the one most nearly correct or by correlating the less variant attitudes." Nevertheless, as a survey of the different media of Fascist propaganda Mr. Porter's paper is of considerable merit...
...Steel Mediation Board did their best to arrange a permanent peace. A compromise proposal- that the steel companies make agreements subject to Labor Board elections-was turned down flat by the steelmasters, though Mediator Charles Phelps Taft II was sure that the union would have accepted it or some variant of that proposal. The steel companies now maintained that the question was not. and never had been, simply one of signing a C.I.O. contract. Though nearly everyone in the U. S. from President Roosevelt down was under that impression, the steelmasters informed the mediators...
...established Tulane's nationally famed Law Review. He hopes to continue teaching at least one law class even after he takes over the presidency formally on Commencement Day in June. Dr. Harris has three sons to trim at his favorite sport, "cowboy" pool, a racy variant of billiards played with three balls on a pocket table...
Like the famed blind men who examined the vast contours of an elephant with widely variant results, the four biographers bring in antipodal reports on their huge subject. Following William Randolph Hearst from his abbreviated career at Harvard, through his early publishing ventures in California, his entry into New York, his pre-War triumphs and present stormy twilight. Authors Lundberg, Carlson & Bates liberally plaster Publisher Hearst with controversial tar, while Mrs. Older is equally generous in coating her hero with sympathetic whitewash. Some contrasting findings on the character & career of Mr. Hearst...