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...months of 1933, future historians will mark well these dates: July 9-The cotton textile code is signed, providing a 40-hr. week, $12 minimum weekly wages, abolishing child labor -the first and still the most satisfactory trade agreement. It was arrived at, said General Johnson, "in a goldfish bowl." July 27-With heavy industry lagging behind in the codification march, the President sends 5,000.000 "re-employment agreements" to 5,000,000 employers of whom 3,000,000 sign. The Blue Eagle is born. "A truce on selfishness, a test of patriotism," cried General Johnson. Aug.5-National Labor Board...
Died. Louis Joseph Vance, 54, fictionist (The Lone Wolf, The Brass Bowl, The Road to EnDor, The Trembling Flame, two score more), bridge player; mysteriously; in his Manhattan apartment where he lived alone. His body was found on the floor with head and shoulders, badly burned, resting on a blazing armchair. Friends said he was a constant and careless smoker, burned holes in pajamas, dressing gowns, bedcovers. An autopsy revealed that he was intoxicated when he died. Like the late Robert W. Chambers (see below), Author Vance was a onetime artist, a prodigiously prolific writer, a scorner of "literature...
...lead before the chase began. Crafty little Letourner was ready for him as Peden came scooting around to shove him to a flying start. Crouched low over the handlebars, their fundaments raised high, Debaets & Hill pedaled madly. Eleven times they zipped around the bowl, the red-shirted team pulling farther and farther ahead until finally Peden caught up with Hill from behind, and the lap was gained. A dozen times thereafter Hill or Debaets gamely started out to recoup their loss, but Peden & Letourner stuck to them like lice. The closing gun, at midnight, found Peden & Letourner winners by that...
...many fathers who witnessed the Yale-Princeton game, Saturday, might have decided that the correct thing to do was to send his son to Harvard. For an autogyro piloted by Leslie B. Cooper, a Princeton graduate, towed a long red advertisement, "Send Your Son to Harvard," over the Bowl before the game. Mr. Cooper, chased to the ground at the airport, refused point-blank to say who was paying for the advertisement. He was working for Roosevelt Field, he said, and the contract for the job was nobody's business. "It's bad enough for a Princeton man to have...
...wise policy of non-participation in post-season or intersectional championship games was reasserted by the Board of Control of the Princeton Athletic Association when it announced yesterday, in regard to its attitude toward a possible invitation for Princeton to represent the East in the Rose Bowl football game, that the agreement with Yale, made in 1923 and renewed in 1927, will continue to apply...