Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue you erroneously report John D. Rockefeller Jr., speaking in behalf of NRA, as having made his first radio address. Mr. Rockefeller's first radio speech was delivered in Collier's Radio Hour on Feb. 12, 1928, his subject being "Character in Business." Such was the demand for reprints of this address that Collier's printed it in booklet form and sent out more than 50,000 copies to those who had voluntarily requested copies. CARL KULBERG Assistant to the President Collier's New York City "Evangeline" Department (Cont'd) Sirs: In re the matter...
...penny earned" are at present invalid. Whether or not NRA is of immediate benefit to Education, Dr. Zook predicts it will widen Education's bounds. The child labor ban will put 100,000 new pupils in the high schools. And the increase of leisure will increase the demand for adult education, by which teachers may "interpret social trends and . . . re-emphasize the fundamental significance of education in our social development." Further, NRA should bring an increased interest in, and revaluation of, history, civics, government and economics (at present studied by only 3% of all high-school students). Relief. When...
Editors. Editor Tom Wallace of the Louisville Times scoffed : "We city slickers used to laugh at the patent outsides and insides. Much of the material ... is deemed necessary to good business on the theory that our readers demand fiddle-faddle about Broadway after dark, Hollywood before daylight, Paris after absinthe, and Washington from the backstairs." The other writer was the Society of Newspaper Editors' second vice president, Managing Editor Marvin H. Creager of the Milwaukee Journal. What irritated him most was not Washington from the back stairs but Washington from the official front steps: "Another member of President Roosevelt...
...things happened to spoil his plan: 1) A new law went into effect in Illinois giving minority stockholders the right in case of a reorganization to demand a fair appraisal of their equity and to be paid the amount thereof in cash. 2) Three groups of stockholders cropped up to object that the terms of the reorganization were un- fair...
...Reynolds each been paid $100,000 a year as voting trustees for Armour's stock? Had the management manipulated the price of Armour stock? Had not the management tried to deceive stockholders about the reason for the reorganization? Ought stockholders not to have been told that they could demand cash for their shares? How could the company justify having used its employes throughout the country to get proxies from stockholders...