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...Lowes maintained that the University had never fixed the extent to which it would make use of the union in securing new employees. He implied that an attempt would be made to maintain the present ratio of union to non-union workers. The University would feel free to hire the best man for the job, but would be scrupulously fair...
...cost. But it makes him uneasy that many of his constituents in The Bronx will not be able to do so. So last week at Albany he introduced a bill which, if passed, would enable New York cities to establish municipal funeral parlors such as several big European cities maintain for their indigent citizens. Decent funerals would be provided at cost price: $60. The parlor which New York City would require to embalm & bury or cremate & pack its poorer citizenry would cost...
...police reporter in purple days of Chicago gangdom. That road led to United Press and finally to the New York Herald Tribune as a Wall Street reporter. His toughest assignment was the 1929 crash. In 1934 he quit reporting to write Imperial Hearst, which was successful enough to maintain him and his Vassar-graduate wife in a bookish Manhattan apartment. With the help of General Johnson and Secretary of Interior Ickes, who used the title for the theme of his attack on monopolies, America's 60 Families shot into the best-selling shelf...
...late great Ramsay. Since 1932 the United Kingdom and the Free State have been engaged in a bitter tariff war, each deliberately rigging its schedules to hurt the other as much as possible. Another old sore is Free State resentment at the United Kingdom's continuing to maintain British harbor defenses, "on Erin's sacred...
...share of the hoist business from 2.2% to 15% within the five years, Sales Manager William P. Bradbury predicted that 1938 would be his company's biggest year. "In periods of retarded buying," he explained, "we have found that more calls must be made in order to maintain the same sales volume. . . . We share completely Mr. Brady's boundless assurance of the prosperous future of this country...