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...making Mme Perkins fought to have its execution vested in her department rather than in an independent Labor Board. Congress rebuffed her. The President in signing the act hammered that rebuff home: "It should be clearly understood that [the Labor Board] will not act as mediator or conciliator. . . . The function of mediation remains, under this act, the duty of the Secretary of Labor. ... It is important that the judicial function and the mediation function should not be confused...
...final function will be not only to train some 150,000 youths for jobs but to try to get jobs for them. Explained President Roosevelt: "We can ill afford to lose the skill and energy of these young men and women." Employers "in all types of industries" will be asked to take on the Government's wards as apprentices. Some will be taken into Government offices in order "to develop a new type of trained public servant." What hard-headed realists could not understand, however, and what President Roosevelt's sweeping blueprint failed to make clear was just...
...explain how & why the cinema became what it now is. Because the profitable demand for them is soon exhausted, most films, classic or otherwise, are retired after about two years, frequently forgotten, sometimes destroyed. To preserve for students and posterity important moving pictures of the past will be the function of the film library which Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art this week announced that it planned to start next autumn, with Rockefeller Foundation funds. The officers included John Hay Whitney as president, John E. Abbott, vice president & general manager, and Edward M. M. Warburg, treasurer...
...organization is ever to function effectively there must be a decided increase in the number of doctors who are available to the undergraduates. Furthermore some of these men should be on duty during the entire twenty-four hours of the day. Of what use is a medical organization if the ailing patient is unable to receive immediate and efficient treatment. In the light of past experience, Dr. Bock's success will rest ultimately on the care with which he chooses his new assistants...
Paramount did not go down without a struggle. There was nothing fundamentally wrong with its first & foremost function- making, distributing and exhibiting films. Its troubles were almost wholly financial. And in 1931 its bankers cajoled John Daniel Hertz into taking the Paramount command as chairman of the finance committee. The thickset, sinewy Chicago financier had been making half-hearted attempts to retire since 1926 when he sold his Yellow Cab Manufacturing Co. to General Motors for more than a few millions...