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...least reason for optimism was the selection of the railroads' chief rep-resentative?"Uncle Dan." An up-from-the-tracks man, he enjoys the unanimous respect of organized railroad Labor. On his own line this takes the form of something approximating beatification. The judgment of B. & O. employes on him is: "One square guy!" Many a road used President Willard's "B. & O. Plan" to settle the shopmen's strike of 1922. As they prepared to sit down and thresh out together the first major wage problem since 1916, workers and operators of 249,000 U. S. rail miles felt...
...polling day no speeches and no posters of any sort were permitted. Previously Finns favoring continuance of Prohibition had postered the city with statements that "those who vote wet will be punished on the day of judgment." On election morn, since the Government had forbidden both Drys and Wets to distribute handbills, the Drys laid upon every doorstep in Helsinki a copy of a Dry newspaper ap-pealing editorially for support of Prohibition. In not a single Helsinki district, however, was a Dry majority polled...
...twins doubted the California organization's favorable judgment of their mentality, the Institute for Juvenile Re-search in Chicago substantiated the assurance. Louis Leon Thurstone and Richard L. Jenkins, who compiled the Chicago institute's facts, went further in destroying old taunts. Twins of the same sex are fully as bright as twins of opposite sexes...
Because they had assembled to pass judgment on "questions of national and international importance." N. S. F. A. delegates voted that: 1) compulsory military training should be opposed; 2) the U. S. should join the League of Nations and the World Court: 3) Prohibition, as it exists, is unsatisfactory: 4) the Volstead Act should be retained: 5) college drinking is not a problem for student jurisdiction. One group of delegates decided that a football player who adds to his school's fame should get a free scholarship. Examined was the first issue of The World Student Mirror, a monthly published...
...John Leonard ("Pepper") Martin of the St. Louis Cardinals; for his performance in the 1931 World Series against the Philadelphia Athletics: an Associated Press poll of experts on "the outstanding individual achievement in sports." Second was U. S. Tennis Champion Ellsworth Vines. ¶Primo Camera, gargantuan Italian pugilist: a judgment for $63,017 against his midget Anglo-French manager, Leon See; for moneys which Camera had earned in what most U. S. experts considered fraudulent boxing exhibitions and which, according to Camera, See had invested, without his permission, in fraudulent gold mine stock...