The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-25
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one else in the service who can
get there is cordially invited.
Early Corners, however, will get
the seats near that glistening
crimson and cream range upon
which Miss Green unfolds mys-
teries before your eyes with the
dizziness of a Mandrake the Magi-
clan (see comic page, this iSSue) i.
A wave of satisfied relief swept
the Social Security Board late
yesterday when screaming scare
heads announced that the Su-
preme Court had upheld the prin-
ciples which brought the agency
into being.
Many workers felt for months
that their luck in landing q Civil
Service job was too good to be
true, and feared the Court might
eventually turn their dream into q
nightmare of awakening such as
AAA unfortunateS endured-and
still are enduring.
Foremost to grab the opportu-
nifty for a prime celebration was the
militant Social Security Board
Union. Of neutrality bill fame.
With but scant notice, union Of
ficials notified everybody avail
able and they Swamped the Po-
tomac Park apartment building
(where The Times Cooking School
continues Thursday. Dancing
and refreshments were the fea-
tured items as the evening wore
on, with toaSts to the five majority
Justices.
Hearings on the charge of the
Baltimore Social Security Board
Union that four Of its members
were dismissed by Ssh because of
racial, religious and union diScrimi-
nation were to continue today in
offices Of the board.
They began Saturday, behind
closed doors, continued through
most Of the day, but settlement of
the case was impossible before the
weekend began, Ssh announced
yesterday.
NOTTCE-Eacn day The Times
publishes photos of Government
employees well known to their col
leagues, with accompanying bio
graphical sketches. Those inter
eSted in such pictures, especially
members Of organizations, should
contact this desk before SIS D. m.
or telephone District 1000, branch
210. Incidentally, news items may
win a prize.
Events Today
Play, ely Away Home" pre-
Sented by Civic Theater with five
FederaliteS in cast, Wardman Park
Theater, 8 p. m.
Play, Take MY Advice" pre-
sented by East Washington Com
munity Center with five FEEDER
alites in cast, Eastern High School,
8 p. m.
The director, three actors and
two technicians working on "Holi-
day." the final production of the
Pierce Hall Players, are nephewS
or nieces Of Uncle Sam.
Director Ina L. Halves Is en-
ployed at Agriculture along with
Ruth M. Taylor, who will be seen
in the play as the conventional,
utterly humorleSS Laura .Cramm.
Milton HirSchfield. known for
his stentorial renditions for the
Roadside, Theater, the Shakes
pearean Society and the Pen
Women of America-the recipient
Of honorable mention for diction
in last springs one-act play tour
nament-iS an attache Of the
Patent Office. Jack Aracey is a
Social Security Board worker.
The major technicians, K. Hill
ding Beij, the set designer, and
J. Gordon Dahlem, his assistant,
are respectively with Bureau Of
Standards and Patent Office.
FEDERALIsMs-In the midst
Of the "rebel FUSS" Colonel
Stengle, Of the A. F. G. E., has
hied himself on an organization
trip to Cincinnati, while Henry
Her is in Boston on similar pur-
poses Federal Trade Commis-
Sion's latest ban is directed at a
dentist who sells false teeth
through the mail and assures GUS
toners his molarS are "the only
way to obtain your real individ-
uality" Henry Clepper, for
merly Of the Forest Services di.
vision Of information and educa.
ton (press agent to YOU'D, has be-
come executive secretary of the
Society of American Foresters,
and will edit the society'S publica-
ton william c. Deming, for-
mer Civil Service commissioner,
left Washington Sunday for Chey.
enne, Wyo., his home, after q
visit with friends here