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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...difficulty was not all of his own making: the industry was sick; it could no longer sustain all its mines working full-time all year. The question was whether John L. had found the right answer: in effect a three-day week only divvied up the distress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Amen | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

American Students "More Responsive" He says that he found U.S. students "more intellectually curious, more responsive to any influence, more deeply charmed by everything new" than their British counterparts, and, at the same time, "almost incapable of boredom, or of more than a very surface skepticism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Berlin, Ex-Harvard Lecturer, Cites Faults of Universities | 12/10/1949 | See Source »

Great credit is due to Sam V. K. Willson who leaned back in his seat throughout, directing both the onstage and pit choruses. The stage being very small, he found it necessary to keep a majority of the dragoons and rapturous maidens seated in the pit. The idea was a great success. It not only left the stage uncluttered, but it provided the necessary volume for the chorus parts...

Author: By Brenton Welling, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 12/10/1949 | See Source »

Aside from facing business problems, the Square merchants participate in many social functions. Before each meeting competitors can be found in the bar of the Hotel Continental engaged in good-natured conversation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Square Businessmen Resolve Their Problems, Conduct Complete Social Program in 39 Year Old Tradition | 12/9/1949 | See Source »

During the afternoon, however, most of the men cen be found around an amply filled punch bowl on the sidelines of the baseball field. Traditionally, Stanley Semers of the University Theatre prepares the mixture with a formula which has sidetracked many celebrants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Square Businessmen Resolve Their Problems, Conduct Complete Social Program in 39 Year Old Tradition | 12/9/1949 | See Source »

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