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...sweat and labor the NRAdministrator wrung from the steelmasters an offer to set up a board like the Automobile Labor Board; to have three members appointed by the President, one to represent employers, one labor, one the public. This board was to decide who should represent labor in collective bargaining. If Amalgamated had been promised one membership on this board, it might well have been satisfied. The steelmasters. however, had no intention of giving Amalgamated the privilege of speaking for all steel labor. They conditioned their offer with the proviso that no member of the Board should have any professional...
...front cover} Throughout the land last week, this week and next week, 1934's college seniors pack their trunks in hot little rooms, cluster on shaded campuses to say goodby, sweat under caps & gowns as they march up to receive diplomas which round out the first great period of their lives. Columbia had already sent 1,000 away from Morningside, their ears ringing with the counsels of Harvard's President James Bryant Conant and of their own pontifical President Nicholas Murray Butler, presiding over his 32nd commencement. At Cambridge next week President Conant was to preside...
...inner spirit, and until such fusion comes we must await the years of our own majority. Nor is Mr. Brooks without proof. What have Longfellow, with his untried sentiments, Bryant with his manufactured moralities, Emerson with his solitary self reliance got to do with the heat and the sweat of life? They are as a barrel organ beside the still, sad music of humanity. Poe and Hawthorne, the two greatest artists who ever lived in America were driven by the materialism of the actual world about them into neurotic dream universes of their own. Not until boisterous Whitman shouldered across...
...village burned to the ground. The family drifted to New York where Father Baline got irregular work certifying meat for kosher butcher shops. He died when "Izzy" was eight. Four sisters went on doing bead work in an East Side basement home. An older brother worked in a sweat shop. For two years "Izzy" went to public school, sold newspapers on the side. But on Saturday nights he was rankled to see that the other children had earned more money than he to put in their mother's apron. At 14 he decided he was a burden, ran away...
Editor Sinnott: Our main kick is that you are shooting too fast, it makes us all dizzy. You are trying to get heaven on earth-a code for this and a code for that. . . . But I didn't know the newspaper trade was exactly a sweat shop...