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...rich men's party and that all Republicans were living on hopes, after "three long years" of the New Deal. One jehu tells of a $2.95 trip and the outstretched hand for the nickel in change! Another tells of hauling six and receiving a thin dime...
...earnest, thin-thatched Associated Press reporter named Morris Watson organized and headed in the AP's New York office a unit of the American Newspaper Guild, newshawks' union which last month voted to join the American Federation of Labor (TIME, June 8). In 1934 the AP employes were granted a five-day week in return for suspending further efforts at collective bargaining. Last October the five-day AP week was suddenly rescinded. The AP Guildmen thereupon asked their National Executive Board to intercede with AP's General Manager Kent Cooper. Day after the Guild's protesting...
...body. . . . I can vouch for the fact that he had no support whatsoever except for resting one hand lightly on top of the cloth-covered stick. He remained horizontal in the air for about four minutes. The tent was then put back. . . . Pat and I could see, through the thin wall of the tent, Subbayah still suspended in the air. After about a minute he appeared to sway, and then very slowly began to descend, still in a horizontal position. He took about five minutes to move from the top of the stick to the ground, a distance of about...
...Hollywood, Cinema Director Woodbridge Strong Van Dyke (Thin Man, Naughty Marietta) went bowling for the first time, forgot to let go of the bowl. Towed like the tail of a comet half way down the alley, he rose with a sheepish face, a sprained...
...tribute to President Angell's co-operative ability that most of the prominent men in the New Yale are legacies from the Hadley administration. President Angell's moneyman is canny, thin-lipped George Parmly Day, one-time Manhattan stockbroker, Treasurer of the University since 1910. He founded the University Press, sponsored the Yale Review and in 1927 set an all-time record for academic high finance by striking 22,000 graduates...