Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...note hinted that definite measures may be taken by the Roosevelt Administration if "unwarranted interference" by Japanese in China tending to close the historic Open Door is not stopped. U. S. public opinion must be tested before the President can act, and significantly in Shanghai last week the U. S. and British Chambers of Commerce held a joint conclave, then dispatched U. S. Chamber President W. H. Plant on the Empress of Russia which will reach Vancouver November 14. President Plant, who is Far East Manager for U. S. Steel Products Co., announced that he is bringing "startling details...
Meanwhile, a few blocks away in Boston's Hotel Ritz-Carlton, Authors Bella & Sam Spewack, shuddering at the thought of Broadway critics, were slashing the script of Leave It to Me, rushing off to hammer typewriters. While the audience was holding its sides over Act II, Act II was going, bit by bit, into the Spewack wastebasket. While the audience was filing out after the show, behind the curtain the cast was flopping down on the stage before being handed practically new parts and rehearsing them far into the night...
...attack upon basing-point price systems. The Federal Trade Commission already has three basing-point cases in the works-against the Cement Institute, the United Fence Manufacturers Association and the Cast Iron Soil Pipe Association. Each of these complaints has charged violation both of the Robinson-Patman Act, forbidding price discrimination between customers, and of FTC rulings, forbidding price conspiracy between companies. Last week, for the first time, acting solely under the Robinson-Patman Act, FTC challenged gigantic Corn Products Refining Co.'s basing-point price setup, gave No. 1 U. S. producer of syrups and starch 20 days...
...Created a new body to watch newspaper and radio advertising. FTC set up a Radio & Periodical Division to administer provisions of the recent Wheeler-Lea Act. Appointed director was an FTC trial lawyer with the extraordinary name of PGad Morehouse. PGad is a contraction of Peter Gad, given name of Mr. Morehouse's grandfather...
...railroad (in revenue), gathered at No. 1 Wall Street, Manhattan, made Mrs. Alden secretary and assistant treasurer. She is the first woman ever elected to a high executive position in a major U. S. railroad. Last week, as she moved into her new office, her first official act was to have the cuspidor moved...