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Anna Schlorer grew up to marry & divorce a man named Smith, inherit & run Mrs. Schlorer's, Inc. with her brother Charles. They signed up promptly with NRA, got Blue Eagle No. 13 in the Philadelphia district. But when the Supreme Court shattered NRA last month the in employes of Mrs. Schlorer's, Inc. were informed that they were going back on the old wage & hour schedules-a 50-hr., 5½-day week with pay for the 85 factory girls down from $13 to $10 per week. The employes struck...
Anna Schlorer Smith told the Press that the company had lost $50,000 because of NRA wages & hours, was facing bankruptcy because of cut-throat competition. She warned employes that they might lose their jobs for good unless they accepted the new scale. The employes stayed...
...honorary degree from Harvard next week should bring forth many premature congratulations to the Corporation. Any acquaintance with the sedate lists of those whom the University has cloaked in conservative honor during the last few years makes one hesitant of accepting this report at its face value. Possibly the NRA decision makes it easier for Ropes, Gray, Boyden, and Perkins to concede a point...
Even where the end of NRA would raise no old ghosts, its effects on the complex structure of U. S. Business were incalculable. The unstable ice industry may fall into confusion but manufacturers of ice-making machinery will probably profit. Almost no modern ice-making machinery has been purchased for nearly two years because installation required an NRA permit. If Southern coal fields regain their wage advantage over Northern fields, railroads like Chesapeake & Ohio, Virginian, and Louisville & Nashville will gain traffic, and lines like New York Central, Baltimore & Ohio, Chicago & Eastern Illinois will lose it. Machine tool makers expect...
...Macy's. Sitting at his desk in shirtsleeves, President Tily confided to a newshawk that the scheme pleased him because it was "ethically and morally right." Pious and high-minded son of a poverty-stricken English gentleman, he is a stanch believer in the ethics of NRA, once advocated a 3-hour working day. Doubtless he had in mind his early years at Strawbridge & Clothier where, at 14, he went to work as a messenger boy at $2 a week. After hours he stayed awake only long enough to study his music lessons. When he rose from messenger...