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There, in Minneapolis, he made one of the dreariest speeches of his campaign. Twelve thousand white-collar workers and farmers heard him recite the woes of agriculture under the New Deal, which they knew as well, if not better, than he. While they waited for his cures, he promised to call an immediate conference of agriculture, labor, industry and consumers, "if I am elected." He promised to establish a system of continuing research into farm problems. That...
...committee (chairman: Pittsburgh's Superintendent Ben G. Graham) found modern high schools busy preparing U S. youth for white-collar careers, succeeding only in making youth "grossly unprepared" for life...
...Studebaker and his fellow conferees. Industrially, the U. S. had been caught with its pants down, faced a shortage of skilled mechanics. Although the U. S. people have an aptitude for tinkering with machines, relatively few of them are technically trained for it. The nation has some 29.000 white-collar high schools, only 1,200 vocational schools...
There is more to U. S. Labor than A. F. of L. and C. I. O.* In a survey of opinion among labor published this week, FORTUNE polled white-collar office workers, sales clerks, salesmen, farm workers, mine building, factory, railroad, transportation and communication workers, domestics, WPAsters, CCC boys, unemployed. FORTUNE presented a list of nationally known names, asked: "Which of these people do you feel have been on the whole helpful to labor and which harmful...
...BEDSIDE ESQUIRE - Edited by Arnold Gingrich-McBride ($3). For many a U. S. magazine, women call the tune. Not so for Esquire. The locker-room delight of the defiantly A. W. 0. L., white-collar U. S. male, Esquire has made itself the house organ of all brands of U. S. adolescence, its most interesting single product drawings of cellophane-glossed girls by George Petty. Despite its coy title. The Bedside Esquire contains no art-teasers; it is solid print. Among the 77 items: stories or articles, mainly second-rate, by the late D. H. Lawrence and Thome Smith...