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...Uncle Billy." He has been a careerist in mediation and arbitration-for NRA, for the petroleum industry, finally (in 1934) for the railroads as chairman of the National Mediation Board. So good & fair at his calling is William Leiserson that he is often asked to mediate outside the railway field. In his last such important chore, ruling that messenger boys come under the Wage & Hour Law, he did not forget to butter up big Western Union and other complaining companies with kindly words...
...Maryland ex-Congressman who was used last year in a bitter and stupid effort to purge Senator Millard Tydings (TIME, Sept. 12, et seq.).* As a worthy favorite at 70, Davey Lewis was considered too old for arduous duty on NLRB, just right for the easier routine of a railway mediator...
...however, was far more serious. Herr Hitler disclosed that he had "proposed" to Poland that the Free City of Danzig, now under the League of Nations and the Polish customs union, be returned as a free state to the Reich and that Poland cede Germany a road and a railway right-of-way through the Polish Corridor. In return, Germany promised to recognize Polish economic rights in Danzig, assure Poland a free harbor in Danzig, conclude a new non-aggression treaty to last 25 years-which, Herr Hitler assured his deputies, would "extend far beyond the duration...
...authentic 1860 rolling stock for Union Pacific, he bought his equipment from Nevada's Virginia & Truckee Railway, which hauled $700,000,000 in gold and silver from Comstock Lode, got an ICC railroad operator's license to transport V&T's 37 vintage cars to location (at 15 m.p.h.). > He persuaded 700 reluctant Piutes, Sioux, Cheyennes and Navahos, some of whom had steady jobs on WPA to work in breechclouts, despite low temperatures Chuckled Mr. DeMille when the thermometer once approached zero: "First time I ever saw a red man turn blue." > Disliking the looks of contemporary...
Latest in a series of profanation which have been perpetrated on the famous statue, this morning's episode was the second attack in as many weeks. On a recent Sunday morning, randals, supposedly representing an checure railway aiding in the woods of New Hampshire, bathed John with bright green paint...