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...York State's Labor Relations Board declared last week in a formal complaint that the Ray E. Dunlap Enterprises at the New York World's Fair had "intimidated, coerced and warned its employes not to exercise their rights of self-organization for collective bargaining." The employes: 17 itinerant guess-your-weight artists. They included Guesser Jack A. Whyte and his sons Frank and Clifford, who guessed that they could get away with forming a union, were fired for their error...
...Lincoln Theatre in Springfield. Two trainloads of guest critics, Hollywood columnists and cinema stars attended, Springfield fat-purses paid $3.30 for orchestra seats, the rest paid the usual 40?. All heard Negro Contralto Marian Anderson, hired by Producer Zanuck for $6,000, sing America. Only complaint Springfield had against the film was that Abe Lincoln arrived in Springfield not on muleback, but on horseback...
...comes upon the wreckage of its pilot train and the mangled bodies of 56 correspondents and twelve photographers who are covering Their Majesties' trip. Besides brooding over such an unlikely fate, the representatives of the Canadian, U. S. and European press have the following causes for complaint: 1) a shortage of bathing facilities (one shower for seven women, another for 107 men); 2) absence of any laundry facilities; 3) the difficulty of getting enough to eat in one dining car; and 4) the fact that when the King arrives in a town that day automatically becomes a legal holiday...
...method of House room allotments was nothing but a campaign on the part of eleven men to gain admission to Houses for some of their personal acquaintances. But this petition appears to us to be definitely altruistic; certainly none of the committee sponsoring it could believe their complaint would result in any revision of the already completed House assignments. We believe this petition was formed after considerable thought to aid future Freshmen who are willing to work hard in attempting to assure for themselves a room in a House...
...under the strictest application of the system, a good scholastic or activities record will always take precedence over such considerations as from what schools or from what part of the country the applicant may come. However, in the actual practice of this policy, the Freshmen have a legitimate complaint...