Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must inform the M. Bernheim that he is no one to talk about wasting space, valuable or otherwise. Being single, the question of alimony does not immediately concern me at the moment. However, I quote the gentleman: "They ('the vaunted female sex') want something for nothing . . ." ''For nothing?" Waving aside all opinion as to woman's spiritual companionship and other vague attributes, there still remains in fact as opposed to theory that one thing which woman alone can contribute. . . . Let the M. Bernheim wipe the perspiration from his brow. and reconsider...
When the report was read, conservative delegates demanded the floor. Dr. John William Langdale, editor of the Methodist Book Concern and a specialist on hymns, cried out that this was Socialism and "I believe this is not the way out. . . ." Most of the other 500-odd Methodists agreed, at length solemnly sent back to the committee for its further consideration the following question mark: "May we not have reached the time when we must replace Capitalism with a system that is more in conformity with our religion...
...SEVEN FIRMS REPORT RISE IN PAY RATES. . . . Brokers Pay Bonus. . . . THOUSANDS GET PAY INCREASES OF 5 TO 20%. . . . Plants Recall Workers, Lift Wage Scales. . . . 20% INCREASE BY PEANUT CONCERN. . . . 9,000 In Textile Mills Advanced. . . .WAGE RISES CONTINUE OVER NATION...
Sugar Crash. Sugar soured the nature of El Gallo. While Cuba remained prosperous no one objected violently to President Machado's habit of lining his pockets with a little of every money-making concern on the island. His extravagant interest in ladies was excused as Latin temperament, as was his passion for bloody and immediate vengeance. But Cuba's prosperity depends on sugar and sugar crashed long before Wall Street. Following several recoveries and relapses after its first crash in 1921, sugar collapsed completely in 1930. The money that he so ardently desired could only be collected from...
Picture Snatcher (Warner) is a vulgar but generally funny collection of black outs. They concern a young racketeer (James Cagney) who finds to his endless delight that he cannot be put in jail for stealing pictures for the tabloids. He also finds that his brother journalists are smart but no match for him. Smartest of them is a rowdy sob-sister (Alice White). When she flusters him, Cagney bluntly knocks her down. When a bereaved husband comes to shoot him he hides in the women's lavatory. When the daughter (Patricia Ellis) of a loud-mouthed Irish policeman (Robert...