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More than 56 percent, 266, of the Harvard 1928 wives attended college. Commented one to this question, "No, she went to Wellesley...
...members of the class, 474 are married and four did not report. More than 59 percent of those who are married, 281, married working girls, of whom 232 stopped working on marriage, 49 kept their jobs, and 15 who had never worked before started...
Commented one: "Only if they have the mental ability to absorb the knowledge and the physical immunity against the social atmosphere. Same goes for my daughters." Nearly 58 percent wish their daughters to go to college. Comments: "If that will help support me." "No! No! a thousand times...
...Seventy percent think the U. S. should never have entered the World War, 64% believe that Wall Street bankers were chiefly responsible for getting the nation in, 91% do not think it made the world safe for democracy; 84% oppose fighting for our commercial interests abroad; 87% oppose lending money, sending munitions or supplies to nations at war; 56% do not think we will be involved in war soon, but if we are, 81% favor limiting profits, 59% favor limiting wages...
Depression having reached the normal phase of protest strikes against pay cuts and layoffs, Akron rubber workers last week reacted with enthusiasm and a surprising measure of success. Following depression in the motor industry, 37½ percent of the 40,000 normally employed in Akron by Goodyear, Goodrich, Firestone and General rubber companies were out of work. Like their C. I. O. brothers in Michigan, members of the United Rubber Workers of America complain that they are getting the short end of retrenchment. Young, levelheaded U. R. W. President Sherman Dalrymple accuses the companies of demoting foremen and other supervisors...