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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such was the prayer offered by the Rev. James Boyd when the Southern Pine Association met recently in New Orleans to consider the effects of the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act...
...American twentieth century economy are Rogers' chapters on the anti-inflationists, the perennial budget-balancers, and on the rapid growth of interstate commercial restrictions. Inflation, as exemplified by the devaluation of the dollar, he prescribes as a possible means of relieving a contracted credit situation. In a one-act play, he gives a cross section of public reasoning on the inflation question, which is dominated by Al Smith's "I am for gold dollars as against baloney dollars!" Possibly Professor Rogers' most valuable discussion is that which deals with the national budget. Here he expounds the theory that a budget...
...conditions and working hours of drivers of interstate trucking fleets like those owned by Standard Oil of N. J. and Bell Telephone Co. "If need therefore is found," ICC then will issue regulations for private fleets as it already has for public carriers, in accord with the Motor Carrier Act...
Like Clarence Day's Life With Father, Bertha Damon's portrait is more serious than the title suggests. It serves in fact as an excellent psychological document, illustrating in vivid elementary terms how childhood influences act on adult character. For as a grownup Author Damon has reacted against the Thoreau-inspired austerity of her grandmother's house and diet by building and remodeling houses, collecting cookbooks. Reacting against Grandma's taboo on pets, Author Damon makes a hobby of cocker puppies and little pigs...
...always clear just what all the shooting is about. Borrowing heavily from "Three Men on a Horse," "You Can't Take It With You," and "Room Service," this moderately amusing screwball farce is hampered by artificial situations, a surfeit of gags, and some uncomfortable let-downs in the last act...