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...Boomerang? In these five companies alone, some 320,000 men are affected by the reductions and the movement continued spreading throughout the week. Labor was being deflated on a large scale for the first time in the current Depression. In addition to protesting Laborites and politicians (see p. 13), many a voice was heard condemning the move, hoping it would be halted. Mr. Gifford did not elaborate his reasons for opposing, and special factors may prejudice Mr. Gifford's case (he is National Relief Director; American Telephone & Telegraph was earning its dividend; A. T. & T.'s wages...
Obviously the boomerang, if any, would get back to different businesses at different rates of speed. No steel employe buys billets or rails. A reduction in steel dividends is apt to have a more direct effect on purchases, although this too would be small. But purchasing power ceased to be a prime consideration for steel company executives when they were obliged to consider their companies' capital positions. Working capital and surplus had shrunk to points beyond which responsible executives felt they could not let shrinkage go. The cut will save U. S. Steel some $30,000,000 a year...
...against the animal or automatic appetites, at their apex: human intensity stated in its highest terms, as Henry Adams would say." The great U. S. artists, says Josephson, have influenced Europe before the U. S.: "the test of a great American artist . . . is whether he is a good boomerang...
...When the boomerang hurled by Earl Russell came hurtling back from India at his head, what could the poor dog fancier say? He could not prove that he had not uttered the quoted words. His speech had never existed on paper. Nobody had made a movietone of it-such as the one which caught Chief Justice William Howard Taft's error when administering the Presidential Oath to Herbert Clark Hoover (TIME, March 25). All that flustered Earl Russell could do was to beg newspaper reporters for their notes. These proved, like all human testimony, to be conflicting. But finally...
...Love Doctor (Paramount). In the theatre this was The Boomerang, an unpretentious comedy about a doctor and a pretty nurse. As a talking picture built around that able farceur Richard Dix, it is satisfactory entertainment?even at times uproarious. It may be fairly evident when the doctor tells his nurse how to arouse the symptoms of love in a patient that she is going to practice the knowledge on him, but obviousness rather accentuates than spoils the comedy. Best shot: Dix telling his fiancée about his new job at the lunatic asylum...