Word: adams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wanted: Adam Smith...
...Moran broke up the team. He said Mack was paying him only $200 a week with a $50 bonus, and $150 for each phonograph record, though the team was averaging $5,000 a week with their famed lines about the early bird, about olives, about "very close" veins, about Adam & Eve. A Los Angeles court ruled that Mack, as originator and owner of the team, had complete right to adjust Moran's salary and to use the team name in billboards. Moran & Mack have had a regular radio job only once-20 weeks on the Majestic Hour program...
...Berlin, at the hub of the pinwheel, pertinent facts were seen to be: 1) Rhenish and Westphalian producers of semi-finished iron and steel products cut prices 3% last week; 2) under an arbitral ruling by Minister of Labor Adam Stegerwald (Time, June 9) the Westphalian producers won last week the right to reduce 200,000 workmen's wages 7½% next month; 3) in a trade circular the Westphalian metal syndicate urged other German industrialists to cut prices and wages, but for the time being this scheme remained a proposal, possibly a trend...
Into German politics last week a big red apple of discord was flung by Minister of Labor Adam Stegerwald. Up to now it has been very much the fashion for German statesmen to paint their country as poor, to picture their businessmen as pressed for cash, dependent on foreign loans. With blazing frankness Herr Stegerwald revealed that today the German moneyed class have on loan abroad more than eight billion marks ($2,000,000,000). This sum would suffice to meet Germany's "crushing payments" under the Young Plan for four years...
Mincing no words, brusque Adam Stegerwald charged that in view of the crying need of German industry for loans "this conduct on the part of German capitalists is unpatriotic and deserves the severest condemnation...