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...lower wage scale. Technically, railroads contract with the national organizations for their union labor. The reduction must be voluntary, under the law. If the railroads attempt to force a cut on employes, the entire issue will be thrown into the lap of the U. S. Board of Mediation for settlement...
...Navy's budget the desired $61,000,000, was told he must; Andre Citroen (Ford of France) to pay respects (see p. 48); Commander-in-Chief Harold D. Decoe of the Veterans of Foreign Wars to serve notice that his organization would continue to agitate an immediate cash settlement of the Bonus...
Harvard men offering to assist with a small amount of their time in this work are sent to various settlement houses in Boston, where they prepare adult foreign persons to take out citizenship papers. Work with youths in these houses consists in directing boys between the ages of 12 and 18 in basketball, debating, camping, woodworking, and handicraft. The settlement work is done in the following places: Lincoln House, Denison House, South End House, Ellis Memorial, Roxbury Neighborhood House, North Bennett Street Industrial School, North End Union, Elizabeth Peabody House, and the Cambridge...
...settlement houses this year have cooperated in a helpful way with the work of Brooks House by sending to Cambridge representatives to find out what problems await solution. This kind of work for Harvard undergraduates is one for which there is a constant demand, according to Souter, who is filling the gaps with some of the volunteers who offer to help...
...Ganna Walska, Polish-born would-be opera singer; by Harold Fowler McCormick. chairman of the executive committee of International Harvester Co.; after a ten-minute hearing; in Chicago. Grounds: desertion. Mme Walska had lived in Chicago rarely since their marriage in 1922, not at all since 1929. Reported property settlement: more than $2,000,000, including one-fourth of Mr. McCormick's holdings in International Harvester Co. From the late Alexander Smith Cochran of Manhattan, her third husband, Mme Walska received $3,000,000 when he died...