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...recognition as in the case of 100,000 New York City transit workers; 3) revenge NRA violations as in the case of light & power employes. Senator Wagner's National Labor Board could not settle old strikes as fast as new ones cropped up. Re-employment gains were heavily offset by men called off their regular jobs. Aware that striking Labor is one of the sure signs of recovery, President Green declared: "There have been some strikes but it is some indication of their character and cause to find that in every case Labor has been sustained by the National...
...students have to traverse the slippery boards to keep their ankles out of the wet gravel and slimy clay, for it is expected that all the paths will be replaced before the end of the year. It was learned that the cost of constructing the new walks is offset by the cost of putting down the boardwalks in the fall and taking them up in the spring...
...tiniest towns. In its convention halls more U.S. Presidents have been nominated than in any other city in the land. Its Negro population exceeds that of Kentucky. Above its enormous immigrant foundation is a socialite crust that knows wealth, culture, good living. It has opera, music, art, museums to offset its physical crudities. It is strong, lusty, loud and ambitious. Many a Chicagoan confidently predicts that his city will soon surpass New York in size and importance, become "The Paris of the West." Yet in the matter of mayors, Chicago has not kept pace with its other manifestations of greatness...
...Angoff's opinion President Lowell will be assigned a high place in future academic circles. His mistakes were many, but his contributtions to education more than offset these mistakes. Where the University was concerned President Lowell exercised a wise discretion, but he was not always careful in expressing personal feelings. President Lowell's handling of the Sacco-Vanzetti case is critized, as well as his attitude toward racial differences. Angoff gives President Lowell praise for his defense of academic freedom of thought especially in wartime, and for the incalcation of his own intellectual standards...
...exposed a ring of counterfeiters who had been selling their bills at a cut rate of $15 per $100. The sleuths crept toward a loft building, dashed up stairs, smashed down a door to find four counterfeiters with their pockets stuffed with their own product. They also found an offset press, several thousand counterfeit $5 Chase National Bank notes, steel and copper plates for $5 notes. The Press was told that the ring had circulated more than a million $1 bills in the last six months...