Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President announced the personnel of his commission to study labor laws and conditions in Britain-and Sweden-this summer. Conspicuously absent was a representative of C.I.O., but John L. Lewis would have no part in any study that might lead to altering the Wagner Labor Act. Mostly of good calibre, the Commission was notably mixed, including the president of General Electric Co. and the principal of Mrs. Roosevelt's Todhunter School for Girls...
...Act II, Sir Arthur gives what Author Shaw apparently considers convincing evidence of a cerebral reawakening by proposing a benevolent dictatorship, including nationalization of banks, property and labor. The Prime Minister's brave proposals come to nothing, but by the time his cabinet, his constituents, a fierce young female Marxist (Ardis Gains), and his family have indicated their more or less reluctant disapproval, audiences have been treated to a symposium so full of sparkling, perfectionist common sense that they may well forget that they have seen nothing closer to physical action than a young agitator's feeble threat...
...dealers are supposed to band together in geographical groups, draw up rules, elect officers and police themselves (all subject to SEC approval). If SEC decides that this has failed to prevent manipulation, excessive commissions, other unfair practices, it may step in. Though last week's act exempted dealers in Government, State and municipal securities, Washington insiders predicted that the next Congress will tackle legislation to regulate municipals...
...Proposed further limitations of speculative trading in grain futures. Under the Commodity Exchange Act this right is given to a Commodity Exchange Commission consisting of the Secretaries of Agriculture and Commerce and the Attorney General. The Secretary of Agriculture is chief and has under his direction the Commodity Exchange Administration, now headed by a heavy-set crop technologist of Swiss descent, Dr. Joseph William Tell Duvel, who has been with the Department of Agriculture off and on since 1902. Last week Dr. Duvel submitted the CEA's proposals for speculative limits. Thereupon, Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace announced that...
When Mr. Efron launched his $1-down plan, Heavyweight James J. Braddock and a large number of chorus girls allowed themselves to be photographed in the act of opening accounts. In three days, 700 people followed their example. In May 1937, across from its main Manhattan office, National Safety opened a branch devoted solely to CheckMaster accounts. By last week, when Banker Efron and other National Safety executives quietly cut into a cake to celebrate CheckMaster's third anniversary, the idea was an open-and-shut success: the base of deposit banking had been broadened considerably. Sixty...