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...countryman who was coming back to play for them. He would arrive with two Ethiopian bodyguards. His violin would be in a bright silver case. His wife would be either a Miss Ford or a Miss Rockefeller instead of Cinemactress Florence Vidor. Even so, there were Russians who took five-day journeys to hear Heifetz fiddle in Leningrad and Moscow, Russians who paid as high as 24 rubles ($19.20) to squeeze into his concerts, Russians who stayed long after the lights went down to hear his Schubert's Ave Maria. Heifetz's earnings for his twelve Russian performances...
...editorial writer, Reuben Maury, are Mr. Patterson's substitute for his youthful reform pamphlets. Simple, often monosyllabic, strongly liberal, they might well enrage Publisher Patterson's Red-baiting cousin "Bertie" McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune. The News was the first newspaper in Manhattan to adopt a five-day week, first to fly the Blue Eagle. It roundly flayed the Press at large for pleading "freedom of the press" as a defense against an NRA newspaper code. It scolded its brothers for resisting Child Labor laws against newsboys and openly stated that it hoped to eliminate all newsboys...
...interim the Mechanics Educational Society (union of automobile tool and die workers) served notice on the entire motor industry that unless its members were granted a 20% wage increase, a 36-hour five-day week, its men would go on strike in six days. Impatiently the American Federation of Labor wired President Roosevelt that Dr. Wolman's Board was wasting time trying to mediate cases of discrimination instead of settling them summarily and proceeding to arrange for collective bargaining committees. Battered from pillar to post, the Board, whose appointment "settled" the strike which threatened three weeks ago to shut...
...Eight Hour Day. It has been a coal fields holiday ever since 1898 when the shorter day was finally won. This year because April 1 fell on Sunday, no coal miners worked Monday. But when the happy cutters, loaders, drillers, bonders, spraggers, snappers, trappers, trimmers, timbermen, bottom-cagers, slate-pickers and all the rest went back to the mines on Tuesday, it was to work not eight hours but seven. For last week United Mine Workers of America signed an agreement with most of the Appalachian operators providing for a seven-hour day, a five-day week and a basic...
...Texas mud to the barrier for the third race at Epsom Downs one day last week, every eye of the shivering crowd was on Out Bound and the peanut-sized figure astride him. Jockey Jack Westrope, a 16-year-old apprentice, had already ridden 299 winners in 1933. A five-day suspension for rough-riding had just expired. Now he was out to win his 300th race before the year end-a record only two other jockeys in U. S. and English racing history had made, the last in 1908. In the first two races of the day Jockey Westrope...