Word: dr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First witness was pipe-smoking Dr. William Leiserson, 56, appointed to the Board eight months ago, with a reputation as a labor mediator. Dr. Leiserson stated the case for NLRB about as well as it has been stated. He denied that the Act needed amendment. He reminded the Committee of the conditions that brought about the Act-the use of labor spies, the discrimination against good union men, the tragedies of violence in labor disputes, the old hostility against labor legislation...
Witt. One of labor's safeguardians was Nathan Witt, 36, Secretary of the Board, an old employe, hardworking, father of two, conscientious. Artfully into the record Counsel Toland introduced a series of memos from Board Member Leiserson to Board Chairman J. Warren Madden. In them, Dr. Leiserson: 1) accused Mr. Witt of giving oral reports of cases differing from the record, complaining about "the usual irregularities in procedure characteristic of the Secretary's office"; 2) agreeing with Chairman Madden that the Universal Pictures case in which Mr. Witt was involved "smelled"; 3) protesting about Mr. Witt...
This year most Germans are not sending Christmas cards because Minister for Propaganda and Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels has requested that money which would be used on such cards be contributed to Nazi Winter Relief. To enable housewives to spice the traditional German Christmas puddings, cakes and cookies, the State last week released ginger, aniseed, vanilla and cinnamon for sale for the first time since World War II broke. Still withheld from Hausfrauen at any price are pepper, caraway, paprika. Nazi authorities urged the making of "eggless and butterless cookies...
...club, careful to mix its shots, has produced such classics as Everyman, Twelfth Night, Dr. Faustus; such a novelty as W. S. Gilbert's Tom Cobb, or Fortune's Toy; such modern plays as Biography, High Tor, The Petrified Forest. Last week it tackled John Webster's difficult Elizabethan horror play, The Duchess of Malfi, proved itself braver than Broadway, which last produced the play in 1858. (Two seasons ago Orson Welles planned to do it, got cold feet...
...urging of Herbert Hoover, national chairman of the Finnish Relief Fund, Inc. (see p. 7), last Sunday was made Finland Day in many a U. S. State and city. The nation's most famed Protestant preacher, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, composed a prayer for the occasion...