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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...studied to be a rabbi, got too close to a workers' movement, spent ten months in jail, finally fled Russia for England. From there he migrated to Chicago, worked for 18 months as a clerk, got a job as an apprentice cutter with Hart Schaffner & Marx which paid, after three years, $11 a week. A strike at the plant plunged him into labor struggles. In 1914 he became first president of an infant Amalgamated Clothing Workers, has been president ever since. He was one of the insurgents, with John Lewis and Phil Murray, who broke with...
...some two-thirds of the Harvard student body were regular customers at the tutoring schools, where they paid out a yearly average of $75 per man. Many men spent over $300 a year, and some invested as much as $1,000. The total income of the "tute-schools" was estimated to be in the neighborhood of a quarter of a million dollars a year...
Junior Programs was started, and is still run, at no salary, by a New Jersey suburbanite, Mrs. Dorothy McFadden, who wanted to give her children something better than they could get from radio and comic strips. Though its audiences are small fry, Junior Programs performers are adult professionals, paid at union rates. Last year Junior Programs troupes traveled 80,000 miles, gave 558 performances of opera, ballet, drama to nearly 1,000,000 youngsters, at admissions of 10? to 25?. Since each performance costs about $300, Junior Programs bookings must be sponsored locally by organizations like Rotary, Kiwanis, Parent-Teacher...
...redemption from an unusual source: the U. S. Navy. Announced by the Navy was a full-blown plan to build new homes for the families of 1,100 Navy Yard workers on a dreary South Philadelphia site near Twentieth Street and Packer Avenue. Cost of building will be paid out of a $100,000,000 Army-Navy building fund set up by Congress to provide homes for defense workers and members of the armed establishments...
Last week the New York Board of Estimate wrangled over Tugwell's new capital budget. Covering the period 1942-46, the capital program called for $246,843,969 of capital improvements, $219,253,000 to be paid for by borrowing. With items: $17,000,000 for schools, $16,000,000 for subways, $7,000,000 for hospitals, $7,000,000 for a public market on Manhattan's West Side. Absent were some $299,000,000 of various departmental requests; hence the wrangling. For his restraint, Tugwell earned a back-pat from the City Comptroller, short, roly-poly Joseph...