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...Massachusetts minimum wage law applies only to women, and not even to women in all occupations. The board can only recommend that its findings concerning wages be accepted by employers. The law is what it is. The shock to the community is due to the sordid meanness of the richest university in the world in throwing 20 poor scrubwomen out of work for the sake of two cents an hour...
...disinterested view of basic problems was taken by Henry Cabot Lodge, grandson of the late great Senator from Massachusetts, in an article "Our Failure in the Philippines" in the January Harpers. An experienced newsgatherer, Grandson Lodge last year toured the world. In the Philippines, he says, he had a shock...
...George Mortimer Pullman, and proved almost an instantaneous success despite the pessimistic opinion of railroad men who thought that the public would never pay the extra charge for Pullman's extra comfort. It was Pullman who substituted folding berths for lumber camp bunks, who introduced shock-absorbing springs, carpeted floors, uniformed attendants. Soon Pullman's Palace Cars had been adopted by the Michigan Central, the Great Western, the New York Central. Although many railroads attempted to install their own sleeping car service, Pullman Palaces, with constantly improved and patented features, were so superior that the roads finally gave...
...safety is the presence of "good names" in a company. Last week a vast English company which, with its affiliates, represents a capitalization of nearly $500,000,000 and has assets scattered throughout the world, passed dividends upon both the preference and common stocks. This alone, was a shock to London businessmen. But even more shocking were whispers of Scandal about the best of the company's "good names...
Recently Sculptor de Creeft, now middle-aged though vigorous, arrived in the U. S. He brought with him a large collection of his sculptures which were last week exhibited in Manhattan. The picador, the ostrich, La Femme-Chatte, were absent; Sculptor de Creeft no longer seeks to shock. Instead, he exhibited his taille directe with rosy granite, and black onyx shaped for shape rather than excitement -gigantic heads, writhing nudes, an orchid of beaten lead. He wants to be respectable. He has married his onetime pupil, Alice Carr of Seattle. He wants commissions, he hopes to sell, make money...