Word: white-collar
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...general purposes, Mr. William McGeorge of Kent, Ohio would serve as Mr. Average U. S. Bowler. He is 53, looks 40; has a Celtic thrust to his under jaw; is lean, lanky, straight; believes bowling is the best possible exercise. A white-collar man with an electrical firm, he has a wife and three big sons, lives in a simple house on College Street. He bowls Wednesday and Friday nights with the Portage County All Stars and in the Kent-Ravenna City League. When he bowls in important competition he wears a shiny satin bowling shirt with a regimental-striped...
...Discrimination in occupational advertisements is sharpest against Jewish salesmen, white-collar workers, women stenographers. To combat it, many Jewish girls have taken to wearing crosses "as a protective charm...
...packing industry's grand hotel is Boston Financier Frederick Henry Prince, who is board chairman of Union Stockyard & Transit Co. (and of meat-packing Armour & Co.). Mr. Prince's bawling, squealing, baaing guests might have been unhappy indeed had not Chicago police stood by to protect their white-collar attendants (see cut). Having won an NLRB election among the handlers by 281 to 280, C. I. O.'s union called the strike to speed up contract talk with the stockyard company's Vice President William J. O'Connor and General Manager Orvis T. Henkle. Negro...
Until last week, banking was one of the few U. S. businesses which had not had a run-in with NLRB. But C. I. 0. has been trying to enroll some 7,200 employes of big, 494-branched Bank of America in its white-collar United Office & Professional Workers union. One Edward C. Washer, in a Los Angeles branch of the bank, was an active organizer last year. He was fired in November. Last week NLRB's Trial Examiner R. N. Denham ordered Employe Washer reinstated with back pay, ordered Bank of America-which it pronounced engaged in interstate...
Taken over by WPA under Hydrographic Office sponsorship, the Tables last week employed some 250 white-collar Philadelphia Reliefers, headed by eight non-Relief supervisors, including six mathematicians. With a $195,000 appropriation, WPA figures its workers will make 9,000,000 separate computations (each value being computed twice independently and then checked), fill five more volumes of tables with an average 300 pages in each, turn the whole over to the Hydrographic Office for publication next year...