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With a moral and financial boost from the Crimson, the Network got University recognition and set up studios in the now defunct Shepard Hall on Holyoke Street. Its executive board was, in the very beginning, a part of the Crimson masthead and largely peopled by Crimeds. It soon became obvious, however, that the Network was being run by Network men, and the two organizations began slipping apart in a complicated series of negotiations that came to an end only last week...
...inflation (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Canada took its price-control pills and kept its economic temperature down. But the Dominion, afraid that controls, like drugs, might be habit-forming, recently took controls off a long list of consumer goods, from candy bars to Cadillacs. Last week it authorized a 10% boost in rents. The economic temperature rose. This week Canada was running a low fever...
...telephone workers mostly wanted higher wages. A year ago, just half an hour before a strike deadline, they had accepted a $5-to $8-a-week boost. They wanted a $12-a-week boost across the board. There were a number of other issues which were not as hot but just as hotly argued. One of them was the demand for a union shop...
...another round of strikes which might be disastrous to the future well-being of their organizations; with Congress showing increased signs of readiness to swing a big axe at the unions, would prevent these leaders from asking for an increased share of industrial profits. Management, faced with another boost in the cost of labor, would again be tempted to raise prices correspondingly, and another inflationary jump would be under...
...Leroy Anderson '29, who gave the band its biggest single boost toward fame, joined the group as a Freshman and soon was composing tunes and medleys which were quickly added to the repertoire. After graduation, he stayed on as conductor and wrote his famous Ivy League medleys, now a distinct part of the Crimson's performances...