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...John L. Lewis (TIME, Jan. 10). But the Dubinsky speech last week was the first time that one member of the C. I. O. high command has attacked another in open forum. Briefly and bluntly Mr. Dubinsky declared that the peace negotiators had arrived at a basis for settlement but that the formula was personally vetoed by John L. Lewis. "No one man," cried Mr. Dubinsky, "has a mortgage on the labor movement...
...settlement, arranged last week by Arthur S. Meyer of the State Mediation Board, simply threw the pickets out of a job. The company agreed to take back all but about 100 of the strikers over the next six months, at the same pay but with loss of all seniority rights...
...years since he was born on an Alabama cotton patch, Negro John Claybrook has by slow degrees made himself one of the most affluent members of his race in the South. He owns a large tenant farm, the bank and general store in its Negro settlement of 300, a fortune estimated at $100,000 and a colored baseball te?m. He lives in Memphis in the height of comfort. Credit for all this worldly success, Negro Claybrook, who never went to school, ascribes to his "mother...
Starting tonight, Brooks House will run trips to the more interesting settlements in Boston for all men interested, Sheldon Ware '38, chairman of the Social Service Committee, said yesterday. Students doing social work in Boston and Cambridge settlement houses under the direction of the Social Service Committee recently reached an all-time high of over 229, Ware said. There will be a competition for the chairmanship of the Speakers Committee in the near future...
...etymology and practice of bundling (partly undressed, unmarried couples occupying the same bed for warmth). Said an early Connecticut historian (1781): "Notwithstanding the great modesty of the females ... it is thought but a piece of civility to ask her to bundle: a custom as old as the first settlement in 1634." Another writer reported: "When a girl, that was old enough to be married, had a suitor who had been a few times to see her, the parents, if they approved of the connection, would-what they called-bundle them; which bundling implied, putting them to bed together, the lady...