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Plans for holding an institute for professors and teachers of economics in the colleges and preparatory schools of Massachusetts were made yesterday at a meeting of the Junior NRA Committee of the Massachusetts State Recovery Board. The purpose of the institute would be to correctly inform all teachers and professors of the fundamentals of the NRA so that they in turn may interpret them for their students and pupils...
...decided to appoint a sub-committee, which would make all arrangements for this institute, choosing a suitable time and place and securing speakers, thoroughly familiar with the NRA program from its inception, so that the professors may hear informative, educational and authoritative talks on the subject. Thus they would be presented with an authentic interpretation of the program for their own benefit and for the benefit of their students...
Speakers would be chosen from those who are acquainted with the various phases of the program. The addresses and discussions following them would be based on the several important phases, such as reduced hours, the NRA as it applies to employment, to increased wages and to social benefits, as well as to similar aspects...
...star tap-dancer, Dick Powell his best juvenile, Guy Kibbee his fenag-ling partner. Philip Faversham, son of famed William Faversham who was a matinee idol 30 years ago, has a bit, his second cinema part, as a frightened hoofer. The developments leading up to the dances and the NRA take too long and the line of rehearsing dancers which is their unvarying background grows monotonous; otherwise Footlight Parade is a good sample of its type. Songs: "Honeymoon Hotel," "Shanghai Lil,'' "By a Waterfall...
...hour week against 30?. Pressed for details on former wages, Vice President Winthrop Neilson stated that Alcoa was paying as low as 20? an hour or $8 a week until it voluntarily jumped to 22? "in an attempt to cooperate in re-employment." When Alcoa signed NRA's blanket code, wages were boosted to 30? an hour. "We accepted 30? an hour for what we hoped would be a very brief period in order to get the Blue Eagle," explained Mr. Neilson. Asked about Alcoa-owned Bauxite, Ark., Mr. Neilson described it as a "model mining town" with "excellent...