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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...habit of uncritical adulation which began with the Frank Lloyd Wright piece [TIME. Jan. 17] seems to have gotten out of hand in your current blurb on Corcoran & Cohen. Please remember that what your customers expect from you is salt, with maybe a dash of vinegar: but never oil and never sugar...
...faces for the followers of Harvard football will be Nick Mellen at left guard, a J.V. standout last year who has entrenched himself at his post ever since practice began, and rugged Mike Cohen at bucking back...
First invasion of the union organizers last year began in November when the A. F. of L. locals 186 and 112 launched a drive to sign up 416 workers in the dining halls. Demanding a closed shop, union chairman Joseph Stefani was able to secure a $2 pay increase for kitchen employees on salaries of $20 a week or less...
...When that conference became a circus it made red-headed Mr. Emery very angry. Two months previously he had conceived on his own idea of a national conference of small businessmen, had sent out from his Akron, Ohio stationery plant a form letter to other little men which began: "The sheriff is about to get my business. How's yours?" He attended the Washington shenanigans, was disgusted, decided to go ahead with his own plans. Last week as Mr. Emery's National Small Business Men's Association finally met in Pittsburgh for its first convention, he promised...
...resolution to move the convention downtown so that he could save 75? cab fare each way. Mr. Emery: "Why can't five delegates ride in the same cab?" Mr. Bloome: "No five small businessmen could ride 75? worth together without getting in a fight." Thereupon the delegates began to fight about the definition of a small business man. A resolution to exclude all bankers from the definition was opposed on the ground that "they will have our business pretty soon anyway." Before long, however, the 150 delegates settled down to the sober, if small, business at hand. They listened...