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...adopted last autumn, President Roosevelt suspended, pending further investigation, two clauses which seemed particularly galling to the industry. One clause declared against "excessive" salaries; the other prohibited producers from raiding their rivals' star performers with offers of higher salaries. When cinema companies began going bankrupt, Hollywood ceased to brag of its wage scale and cinema employes began to take unusual pains to get their Federal income tax returns just right. Last week, NRA Division Administrator Sol Arian Rosenblatt, able Broadway lawyer, made his long-awaited report on stars and salaries...
Trend. Cities like Buffalo are accustomed to four distinct types of local publications: daily newspapers for national and local news; country-clubby monthlies for social chatter; chamber-of-commercy magazines to brag about the city and back-pat its bigwigs; and, after the success of The New Yorker, a rash of local smart-charts broke out, flourished briefly, faded away. Buffalo last week was the scene of a new kind of small-city journalistic enterprise. Out came a four-page tabloid to review and, where possible, go behind the week's local news, develop news personalities. It was called...
Question eleven is too broad to be answered briefly. It involves a consideration of the fundamental nature, purpose and benefits of education. In a change of the sort proposed a pass degree will be nothing more than a mere diploma to hang on the wall or something to brag about in Pullman cars. Furthermore, in some fields it would be absolutely impracticable to ensure the slightest understanding of a subject by the Pass men without tutorial instruction. This, I think, is the case in Economics. In this field a pass degree without tutorial assistance would be no more than...
...Fool. "There may be smarter men than me but they ain't in Louisiana." Huey Long likes to brag. His enemies will agree that he is no fool but they will also contend that his smartness is far from admirable. An incredible cross between Iowa's Brookhart, New York City's Jimmy Walker and Chicago's Big Bill Thompson, Democrat Long has developed a political technique in which he is too intelligent to believe himself. Impervious to insult, he knows the trick of playing politics in its rawest, crudest form and he plays it with a vim, dash and audacity...
...high average miseries of low average people give this goodness something to bite into. The life of the Stevens family along the railroad embankment showed little to brag of. Mr. Stevens was a poorly paid clerk; Dick and Mary worked out; Mrs. Stevens kept house; young Ernie kept it lively. They could afford few pleasures; they were fed up with tedious work; they took little interest in the out-side world, but-they took their holiday...