Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...situation from that angle. In his lead, the Post reporter figured out that the two-cents-an-hour increase in wages demanded by the State Minimum Wage Commission would amount to $2 a day (the women worked from six a.m. to eleven a.m. in Widener Library) or $12 a week for the twenty, women. The increase would have given each woman sixty cents more a week, or $11.10 instead of $10.50. The Post did not point out, as it might have done, that Harvard has investments conservatively listed by the treasurer's recent annual report...
...improve the quality of U. S. diplomatic representation abroad was one of the prime aims of President Hoover on taking office. The impression grew that, all other things being equal, he would favor career diplomats in appointments over politicians or their friends. Until last week the President had made 26 appointments, of which the career men had secured twelve (including China, Venezuela, Guatemala, Santo Domingo, Costa Rica et al), noncareer men eleven (including Britain, France, Germany, Cuba, Austria) and men betwixt-and-between three (Spain, Holland. Italy...
...Last week noncareer diplomatic appointments went definitely into the lead when President Hoover nominated John Motley Morehead, Mayor of Rye, N. Y., electrical engineer with the Union Carbon & Carbide Co., to be Minister to Sweden; and Henry Wharton Shoemaker, publisher of the Altoona (Pa.) Times Tribune, to be Minister to Bulgaria...
...President Hoover last week approved installation in his executive offices, now being rebuilt after the fire, of an air-filtering and cooling system similar to those in the House and Senate chambers. In torrid weather all windows will be kept closed while machinery in the basement supplies air cooled by the equivalent of 30 tons of melting ice per day. Meanwhile builders on the $160,000 reconstruction job were trying to earn the $200 bonus they will get for every day they lop off on the 90-day contract schedule, to avoid a $200-per-day forfeit for overtime...
...tells his students that once, while lying ill in Europe, he undertook to read all of the stormy Italian poet's work. He concludes: "At the end of which time, gentlemen, I came to the decision that D'Annunxio has a dirty mind." Harvardmen were sorry to hear, last week, that Pedagog Perry was resigning his chair to become an Emeritus Professor, having served the University well for 23 years...