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...resign as both general manager of Grain Corp. and vice president of Stabilization Corp. The customary excuse was used: "The pressure of other affairs which will require his undivided attention." But there were few wheat men in Chicago who did not believe that Mr. Kellogg, despite his three-year contract, had been eased out because of the botch he had made of U. S. wheat trading, the ill will he had engendered among growers and dealers alike...
...appointment of U. S. Circuit Judge John Johnston Parker of North Carolina to the Supreme Court was rising a tide of Senate opposition. It came from two quarters: 1) Union Labor, because in the Red Jacket coal case Judge Parker had sustained an injunction protecting a " yellow-dog" contract from the United Mine Workers of America;* 2) Negroes, because Judge Parker, in a 1920 campaign, was supposed to have said that the G. 0. P. did not want the black race in politics...
...yellow-dog" contract, in Labor's parlance, is one under which men are employed on condition they will join no union...
Immediate plum of this great air fight: a Government airmail contract which United, having operated its group at a profit during the past hectic year (TIME, March 31), feels justified in trying to acquire, but which Curtiss-Keys, having been efficient managers, might ultimately retrieve...
...sound retirement pay plan for pedagogs, as submitted by President Pritchett includes: 1) an annual or monthly payment (10% of salary suggested) equally divided by the teacher and the institution; 2) each teacher to have "an individual contract clearly describing his obligations and his rights;" 3) an arrangement whereby the premiums are arranged on a sliding scale with his salary; 4) "On separation from the service before retirement the teacher must be able to take with him the entire equity accumulated under his retirement contract;" 5) Adequate machinery . . . " to invest and handle the accumulated funds...