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...carpeted little chamber, the storm & strife of tear gas and window-smashings, of roaring, club-waving mass resistance to the Law, seemed pleasantly far away. Day before the Guffey bill windup, New York's New Dealing Robert F. Wagner had presented what was believed to be the Administration viewpoint when he rose in the Senate to blame the Sit-Down on employers' defiance of his National Labor Relations Act, thus implying that it was up to the Supreme Court to resolve the Labor crisis by a decision on the Act. Not one of the Senate...
...undergraduate meeting Friday afternoon under the chairmanship of Richard T. Davis '38, it was voted that petitions for further investigation of the affair be circulated. Garrett Birkhoff, instructor in Mathematics, presented the faculty viewpoint at the meeting, which was held in the Leverett House Common room...
...these days of changing social, economic and political values," Sears, Roebuck's President Robert E. Wood wrote to stockholders last week, "it seems worth while in this annual report ... to render an account of your management's stewardship, not merely from the viewpoint of financial reports, but also along the lines of those general broad social responsibilities which cannot be presented mathematically." Mathematically for the No. 1 U. S. mail order house, 1936 scarcely could have been better. Sears enjoyed the best year in its history. So did its older and smaller rival, Montgomery Ward & Co., which reported...
...principal effort of this sort, the authorities have every year permitted three undergraduates to serve on the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports. This committee is the highest tribunal in Harvard athletics. Dealing with general and administrative policies and problems, it has recognized the importance of the undergraduate viewpoint. But that is only half the story, for the undergraduate members of this body are chosen solely from major sport ranks. The minor sport man and all those scores of students whose names never get in the headlines, but who have definite views which should be known, are completely shut...
This realistic viewpoint was discovered and front-paged by the New York World-Telegram in the well-carpeted offices of "two financiers closely identified with Morgan interests." Otherwise unidentified, these two bankers predicted complete unionization of U. S. industry in the near future, conceded that it might be a good thing, provided Labor was willing to assume the responsibilities of its new-found importance. Whether the House of Morgan was now lending its influence to John L. Lewis' cause no one who knew would tell. Certainly Steelman Taylor would not have acted without the advice and consent...