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Dates: during 1930-1939
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No War I veteran but an outstanding post-War civic leader (as member of the Overseas Settlement Board, Imperial Relations Trust, Broadcasting Commission), Lady Reading was last year picked by Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare to amalgamate 70 women's groups into one workable body, now numbering half-a...
Ten years ago many U. S. leftwing painters turned away from canvas as being too bourgeois, began to slap murals on every bare space they could find. Five years ago, with WPA's advent, most of them got commissions to paint the walls of post offices, law courts, schools...
At week's end, WMCA seemed to be damned if it did, damned if it didn't. For if the FCC decided not to chastise the station, the Federal Trade Commission might do so for misleading advertising.
WMCA's ardent promotion department photostated two such puff-items, crayoned a big "SCOOP!" across the layout, ran it as an ad in the trade press. Week later from the Federal Communications Commission (James Lawrence Fly, chairman) came a curt order to WMCA to show cause, within 72 hours...
Last week the Federal Trade Commission announced it had issued a cease & desist order against Great Britain Spiritualist Church and its officers. (Among them: the widow of Mr. Colbert who died two years ago.) The FTC itemized its findings: "Grendeline Holy Oil is not a product of the Sibber tribes...