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...recruits from St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers, N.Y. Cardinal Spellman's troubles as an employer of labor began in January. The 200-odd union workers of Calvary, one of the country's largest Roman Catholic cemeteries, were bargaining for a raise of about 20%-a five-day week for the same wages ($59.40) they now get for a six-day week. Their employers, the trustees of Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral, offered them a raise of about 3%. The gravediggers turned the offer down, and negotiations came to a stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Strike in the Graveyard | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

William E. Hocking '01, Alford Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, and Perey W. Bridgeman, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, will conclude the Law School Forum's five-day symposium on "Values for Modern Man" with a general discussion tonight. The final talk will get under way at 8 p.m. in the Cambridge High and Latin School auditorium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Value' Forum Ends Tonight; Theologians Analyze Beliefs | 3/4/1949 | See Source »

Tonight's session of the five-day symposium, dealing with religion and philosophy, will begin at 8 p.m. in Sanders Theater...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scientists Agree on Natural Laws for Society at Forum | 3/3/1949 | See Source »

...busy day was divided into periods timed to the minute. Doctors, nurses, attendants, psychiatric workers, clinical psychologists, and experts in various kinds of therapy went to work on a five-day, 75-hour week. The men were up at 6 a.m. and in bed by 9 p.m. On Saturdays they cleaned up the ward ("ward hygiene"); some went to sports events (to keep in touch with what well people were doing). Sundays they got ready for visitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Total Push | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

Last week the doctors made news by asking the churchmen for a diagnosis. Chicago's huge Medical Center*(3,500 students) held a five-day meeting of doctors and ministers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Prayer & Pills | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

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