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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United States is ineffective in solving the domestic situation because it only aids separate industries, while it has not increased the demand for labor or raised the standard of living...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Huge Housing Program and an Early Return to The Gold Standard Are Necessary for Recovery | 1/23/1935 | See Source »

...would uphold a veto of a law for full payment of the bonus certificates, will mean little by the time a bonus bill comes to passage. For the Senators committed themselves against "outright and immediate payment." In short, they are opposed to yielding to the Legion's full demand. In most Congressmen's minds the issue had last week boiled down to a question of how much cash to give. Messrs. Taylor & Belgrano have not yet set their seal to any definite bill. To compromise before it is necessary would only weaken their bargaining position. But the fiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: For God, for Country, for Bonus | 1/21/1935 | See Source »

...would-be grooms) ten to one. Next day Rabbi Wolf received newshawks in the midtown Manhattan Synagog where, at an annual cost of $500 to New York City, he is the only registered voter. Wearing a black skullcap, he tabulated chassanim according to their worth as husbands. Most in demand are doctors, who may command a dowry of $12,000. Rabbis get from $7,000 to $10,000, businessmen $5,000 or $6,000. Dentists are not in demand and, said the Rabbi, "a lawyer no one wants. People are afraid of lawyers, I don't know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Kalles, Chassanim | 1/21/1935 | See Source »

...qualifications for a good match Rabbi Wolf, who annually lectures shadchonim on the ethics of their business, declared beauty comes first. "When you go into a grocery store you demand the best, you demand that it be hot and with cream. Well, when you take a girl your sister asks, 'What have you brought home, a nice young lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Kalles, Chassanim | 1/21/1935 | See Source »

Public reception of new models at the New York Automobile Show-a business pointer which important motor executives take so seriously that they seldom fail to attend in person-was unanimously conceded to have been the best in six years. Rising demand from the automobile industry lofted steel operations in less than a month from about 30% of capacity to 47%, a profitable basis for the heaviest of heavy industries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cold Fact | 1/21/1935 | See Source »

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