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...Labor Department. Not until the 1930 Census is taken in April can the true picture of labor conditions throughout the land be revealed. When President Hoover happily announced last month that U. S. employment had at last turned upward following the stockmarket crash, it was at best an intelligent guess. New York State Industrial Commissioner Frances Perkins declared last week that January unemployment in her state was the worst in 15 years, that labor conditions were "very serious." While the U. S. Labor Department insisted that employment would be normal in 90 days, Communists stirred hungry, cold, jobless...
...make such a confident statement on the outcome of the meet, it seems certain that Coach Farrell must have a few trump cards up his sleeve which he intends to spring on his opponents next Monday evening. Just what these may be is not known, but a guess that the hurdles, distance runs and 300-yd. dash might contain a few Crimson dark horses is probably not too far removed from the situation to be pertinent...
...inventories had to be written down, and it did not seem likely that dividends on the 6½% convertible preferred could be maintained. Since Goldman, Sachs underwrote this issue, and since Eitingon Schild's trouble was just that of Shenandoah, decline in inventories, it is an easy guess as to whence came the idea that Eitingon Schild officials turn in about $2,000,000 worth of preferred and common stock, enough to wipe out the expected deficit and provide for dividend payments...
...long, there gleams at last a ray of hope that she may again cleanse her fair name and wipe the muck from her escutcheon. Under the guidance of her sturdy constabulary a reform is now in progress so startling and courageous in its nature that only the merest guess can be ventured as to the far reaching consequences which may eventually be involved...
...person whom he had chosen to succeed him as worldwide commander of the Army. None dared open the envelope for the dissension it might cause. Some think he named his daughter Catherine, but, as Lawyer Gavin Simmonds declared just prior to last week's burning: "People may guess, may hope and fear, but they cannot know...