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...when this close-shaven, 45-year-old onetime lawyer and Wartime infantry major led his eminent hearers beyond considerations of mass, size and distribution that he got on disputed ground. Dr. Hubble is chiefly renowned for his measurements of the reddening ("red-shift'') of light from distant nebulae. Effect of these observations was to make the universe, already expanding in theory, seem expanding in fact. The nebulae appeared to be hurtling away from Earth at speeds proportional to their distances, and the redshift of the farthest whose spectra could be analyzed (about 150,000,000 lightyears) indicated...
...model of Admiral Horthy's Regency in Hungary. First candidate for such a post is obviously Prince Ernst Rudiger von Starhemberg, titular head of the Heimwehr, descendant and namesake of the great general who saved Vienna from the Turks in 1683. When there was another little Cabinet shift in Vienna last week, a second candidate for Regent of Austria jumped into the public mind. Dauntless old Prince Alois von Schonburg-Hartenstein, 75, was advanced from Under Secretary to Minister of National Defense...
...last analysis accounting for them, is the fact that virtually overnight we are attempting to introduce revolutionary changes in the industrial mores of the country. Until last summer four out of five employees were working under individual bargaining. Now we are attempting to make a sudden shift to collective bargaining and joint relations. Neither capital nor labor is well-prepared to assume so suddenly the new responsibilities imposed on each side by the NRA. In most plants each side lacks experience in dealing with the other; each lacks men trained in collective bargaining. Employers are not well-acquainted with...
Union. Last week Union College (Schenectady, N. Y.) accomplished a shift of presidents more gracefully than St. John's. Meeting in Manhattan, Union's Board of Trustees allowed Acting President Dr. Edward Ellery to go back to his old job as head of the chemistry department and faculty chairman. Then the Board announced that Dr. Dixon Ryan Fox, 46, Columbia University history professor (Decline of Aristocracy in the Politics of New York; An Outline of Early American History) would be inaugurated in June as Union's 12th president. Union, founded in 1795 as the first non- sectarian...
...action was taken after two of the waiters had brought their suggestions to William II. Heaman, manager of the Union and goes into effect immediately. The waiters had drawn up a petition and were attempting to secure the signatures of both shifts, when they were anticipated by the move of the Union authorities. In the petition, the waiters suggested not only the advance of the hours for work on week-day mornings, but also the adoption of a rule whereby only half of a shift would work each Sunday morning in which case the student would only work one Sunday...