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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Unlike many another industrial paternalist, George F. never foisted any form of company union on his workers. So in last week's election they simply had to vote for one union or none. One day 8,000 of them suddenly quit their machines, bowled past a few protesting foremen, paraded through the shops and streets with placards reading: "We're for George F."; "George F. Can't Be Wrong"; "Join Up-No Union." Protestant preachers, Catholic priests, Salvation Army chaplains had special prayer meetings for George F.'s recovery. Two days before election, word came that...
According to the theory that Dean Phelps has maintained over the past few years, the slight market rise with the war this year should send the percentage of potential flunkies...
According to past records, about 11.2% of the student body will be potential probational candidates after the Mid-Year returns...
...sheer magnificence, Hollywood has rarely produced anything that can compare with "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex," the current attraction at the University Theatre. The costuming is brilliant, the sets impressive and seemingly authentic and the technicolor, which has been so cousistenly bad in the past, achieves a new and more than welcome reality. As is to be expected however, the personal triumph of Bette Davis as the ruthless but passion-torn Elizabeth is the high point of the picture. For this is the type of gutty part which other actresses shun, but in which Miss Davis seems...
...government. A welcome sign of its activity is the talk to be given here this afternoon by Mr. E.J. Stocking, Principal Examiner of the Civil Service Commission. Even more significant is the fact that in taking the initiative in arranging this talk, the Commission has reversed its past policy...