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...Service in France, Poet Brewer sings a long paean to his old comrades of Tours, Issoudun and the Western Front. Riders of the Sky, "a combination of fact and fiction and legend," brings in many an actual person and event. Some of the characters: "Gil" Winant (now Governor of New Hampshire), Eddie Rickenbacker, the late Quentin Roosevelt, Frank Luke, "Hobey" Baker. Author Brewer's reference to himself among the catalog of heroes is modest...
Leading business men and educators have promised the Institute active support. Sample backers are Edward A. Filene of Boston, Mayor John S. Cohen, Atlanta publisher, Dr. Mary E. Woolley of Mt. Holyoke, Governor John G. Winant of New Hampshire, former St. Paul's instructor, Dr. Harold W. Dodds, former head of Princeton's School of Public Affairs, Dr. Arnold B. Hall, director of the Brookings Institute, Dean Walter J. Shepard '02, of Ohio State, president of the American Political Science Association, Dean Charles E. Clark of the Yale Law School, and James H. Rand, Jr. '08. Raymond Dennett...
...create a new Textile Labor Relations Board, superseding both his own Winant Board and the National Labor Relations Board, President Roosevelt last week simply extended the sway of his Steel Labor Relations Board, created last summer when a steel strike threatened (TIME, July 9). Its members: 1) aloof, judicial Walter P. Stacy, who expected after a fortnight as temporary chairman to return to his job as Chief Justice of North Carolina's Supreme Court; 2) grim, grizzled Rear Admiral Henry A. Wiley, U. S. N., retired, ardent Big Navy man, arbitrator of two railway labor disputes; 3) liberal James...
...week did George A. Sloan, Cotton-Textile Institute's president and spokesman for employers, issue his first statement since the end of the strike. He and his cohorts were willing to "cooperate" with the new Board. Like Leader Gorman he read victory for his cause in the Winant Board's report (TIME, Oct. 1). It had found working conditions vastly improved under the textile code, had recommended no change in hours or wages, had turned down blanket recognition of United Textile Workers Union. Leader Gorman judiciously let these points pass, pounced with fury on a statement that strikers...
...have secured reform in the whole administration of the labor provisions of the code," claimed Leader Gorman. Here he was on solid ground. Strongest point made by the Winant Board was that the National Cotton Textile Industrial Relations Board, which works through the Code Authority, was wholly ineffective, should be supplanted by a body like the autonomous and impartial Steel Labor Relations Board. The Winant Committee thought that "investigation of labor complaints against management by management itself cannot be defended...