Word: coms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five years since Franklin Roosevelt began his vigil over business morals, FTC has disposed of twice as many com plaints as in the previous five years-and the commission has been rewarded for its vigilance: 1) the 1936 Robinson-Patman Act extended its jurisdiction over price discrimination; 2) the 1938 Wheeler-Lea amendment to the original Federal Trade Commission Act relieved it of the necessity of proving that unfair trade practices injured competitors and allowed the commission to go to court to obtain remedies; 3) this year the Government provided the commission with a new home...
...time the rival organizations glowered and girded them selves for rival U. S. tours next season. But four months ago, it was announced that the battle was off, that the two new ballet companies had decided to make up their differences, that a super-ballet com pany incorporating the talent of both groups would make its debut at Covent Garden in London this June. In absorbing the de Basil Ballet, World-Art jumped a cosmic category, became Universal...
...York-bred. Fourth Authority member is Mormon-born Democrat Robert Hinckley, assistant WPA administrator for Far Western States and supervisor of considerable WPA airport and airway project work. Fifty-year-old Indiana Republican Oswald Ryan, fifth member, has for six years been gen eral counsel to the Federal Power Com mission...
Edouard Bourdet is director of the Théâtre Français, better known as the Comédie Francaise, which is the haughtiest and most famous theatre in the world. Recently the Comédie Franchise was delighted to honor French Playwright Henry Bernstein's Judith. But not, in Bernstein's opinion, to rehearse it properly. Thereupon Bernstein naturally insulted Bourdet. Bourdet naturally challenged Bernstein to a duel. It was Bourdet's first, Bernstein's ninth...
Three graduate students also received $300 apiece from the Bowdoin fund. They are Philippe Dur 2G., A.B. '35, of New York City, who wrote on "The Use of History"; Raymond A. M. de Roover 2G.B., Lic-en-Sc. Com. et Fin. Institute Superieur de Antwerp, Belgium, 1924, of Antwerp, for an essay entitled "A Florentine Firm of Cloth Manufacturers"; and Leo Goldberg 4G., S.B. '34, of New Bedford, who wrote on "The Collaboration between Physics and Astrophysics with Reference to the Cosmic Behavior of Helium...