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...ouster move might have died away had not Mayor Key infuriated organized labor in his attempt at municipal economy. He accepted a low bid for the construction of an administration building at Atlanta's airport. Labor leaders, protesting that the wage scale was too low, got the City Council to pass a measure adding $4,300 as a workers' bonus. Mayor Key, determined to retrench, vetoed it. The Atlanta Federation of Trades picked up the Drys' recall petition, pushed it hard enough to secure last week's election...
...arrangement without permission of either paper. All too familiar with the bloody history of Chicago's oldtime circulation wars, Publisher Thomason induced the Commissioner of Public Works to call a meeting of representatives of the three newspapers in City Hall. Angry words flew. Would the Tribune or Herex "move over" on the newsstands and admit the Times? They would not. Then, said Publisher Thomason, his newsboys would hawk his paper on corners near the newsstands...
...great grey Cadillacs glide up to great buildings. Top hats and spats swagger along Commonwealth, while Malacca canes set the pavements smarting. An ascot tie and a white pearl move slowly up the wide stone steps. Black velvet and grey feathers sweep to the sidewalk and a car door slams. young men with their fathers' money and fathers with fathers' money smile stiffly to one another. Cameras snap and the papers have a picture of a bent leg and averted gaze underneath a resounding name...
...students from the House Plan. This rule had been adopted in the Spring of 1930 and was later rescinded but it now appears that a final decision has been reached. Seen purely from the standpoint of the approximately thirty Freshmen who will thus be barred from the Houses the move may seem unfair. But the action of the University carries far wider implications and is indicative of a change in policy in the school: an effort to make it more and more of graduate character. Although present restrictions seemingly make a realization of the ideal--a professional school, free from...
...principal difficulty that faces engineers in the construction of steeples is the wind stress. Although the girden seem scarcely able to support the stock pole, the chief concern is to make all joints form the ground up so tight that the wind will not be able to move the spire. Slender towers present little difficult since they expose a more or less rounded figure to the wind which meets more resistance in square buildings. Contrary to popular opinion the sway of even the tallest modern buildings does not exceed an inch. Experiments, in which a plumb line was dropped from...