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Winthrop topped the House swimming championship by amassing 34 points to Leverett's 21 in the contest held Tuesday in the Indoor Athletic Building pool. Originally scheduled as a two-day meet, it was found that there were so few entries that the meet, originally scheduled for two days, could...
...climax of the Conference's first fortnight came in a plenary session the day after Molotov had lost in the Rules Committee (actually the same people who make up the Conference) his two-day fight to tie the committee up with a rule requiring a two-thirds vote. France's Georges Bidault, first chairman of the Conference, opened the plenary session: "We are now called upon to vote on our rules of procedure, adopted yesterday by a competent committee." Then he blandly continued: "If there are no observations, will those delegates in favor of the adoption of these...
Like the burly hero of a Grade-B Western, A.F.L. Union Boss Herbert Knott Sorrell took on ten of Hollywood's major studios last week, and won out. In a two-day strike, the 7,000 "off-production"* workers of Sorrell's young, tough Conference of Studio Unions won every wage-&-hour demand, including a 25% increase in base pay. For the first time in Hollywood history, studios will guarantee their off-production workers, by far the biggest part of their staffs, a work week. This meant that any time these employes are called to work they must...
Yesterday, what is now a 32-man Board of Overseers, clothed with the dignity of tradition, explored tunnels, maintenance shops, kitchens, and grounds, and ate a one-hamburger meal off an army-style tray as the start for their first two-day meeting since...
...most ricksha men had come out of the greater inhumanity of hungry villages and hopeless slums. The Government spoke of archaic labor, but last week the ricksha men showed how necessary their labor was to a nation that is not yet wholly modern. In Shanghai, they staged a spectacular two-day strike against exorbitant rentals charged by the ricksha owners. The metropolis of 3,000,000 hiked to shop and office, jammed itself inhumanely in over-jammed trolleys. The municipal government's social affairs bureau mediated a truce while coolies and hong owners negotiated to fix standard rates...