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...Railway & Steamship Clerks which had controlled part of this work promptly countered with a set of demands upon the railroads, threatened a strike of 25,000 freight and express handlers, ticket sellers and railway station employes that would tie up railroad service in the whole New York City area. A serious strike depriving 7,000,000 people of many things far more essential than Coronation costumes was averted at the last minute when President Roosevelt appointed a special mediation board. Under the Railway Labor Act this automatically postponed the strike for at least 30 days...
During the summer of 1936 army leaders from the 1st corps area and from Washington, leaders in the educational study of the corps, and laity and members of the Harvard School of Education all spoke at the conference where the problem of Americanization and civic training was one of the big questions raised. At that time it was decided that debates of and controversial questions are unwise methods of training for the camps...
...this mid-western city, in 1897, that the Associated Club was first organized by delegates from the several club units in that area. And it is there that this year's representatives will convene to hear such speakers as President James B. Conant '14, and James M. Landis '24, chairman of the Social Securities Exchange Commission and dean elect of the Law School...
Following the strike, a second meeting will take place at 12 o'clock on the Boston Common, sponsored by colleges in the city area and headed by W. Tucker Dean...
...advantage the University Theatre has over any other movie house in the Boston area is the inertia of rest. Even if the average patron gave a hoot for the quality of what he saw on the screen, the energy required to get into town to see some super-classic would be prohibitive. The man with the cinemaitch merely wanders to the University and takes what comes...