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...STATEMENTS AS YOU QUOTE IN YOUR ISSUE AUG. 8. AT NO TIME DID I THINK, MUCH LESS "CHATTERED," ABOUT A SALE OF CRUM ELBOW AS AN ACT WHICH WOULD "ANNOY FRANKLIN A GREAT DEAL." HONEST, HARDWORKING, DEBT-FREE PEOPLE COULD NOT ANNOY OTHER HARD-WORKING DIRT FARMERS AND WOULD DIMINISH RELIEF. THAT THE TRANSFER TO FATHER DIVINE WAS CONCEIVED IN SPITE IS NOT TRUE AND IS TYPICAL OF NEW DEAL DEFENSE PROPAGANDA SENT OUT BY SMUT AGENTS DREW PEARSON, WALTER WINCHELL AND ROBERT ALLEN UNDER THE DIRECTION OF SMEAR MASTER MICHELSON. WHEN AGAIN THEIR CONCEITS ARE SERVED UP AS AUTHENTIC...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 22, 1938 | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...Counsel Joseph Padway thought otherwise, declared in Washington: "The Wagner Act specifically provides under Section 13 that 'nothing in this act shall be construed so as to interfere with, or impede or diminish in any way the right to strike.' The American Federation of Labor will appeal this case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Injunction, New Style | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

...chief cause of the country's current economic ills was the Administration's policies-urged modification of the levies on 1) undistributed profits and 2) capital gains. Most sensational item in the report last week was a flat statement to the effect that the best way to diminish unemployment was to repeal the first and modify the second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Taxes | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...enclosed behind shutters; those visible to the audience are often dummy pipes good only to look at.) The Bach facsimile requires from one-third t01/20th the wind pressure demanded by a modern organ, and has a correspondingly limpid quality of tone. Unlike the modern organ it cannot increase or diminish the volume of tone. The "swell" mechanism of the modern organ was invented in England in 1712, was not used in continental Europe until long after Bach's death. Bach was such a master of musical architecture that he could create the illusion of swell without any mechanical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Facsimile Organ | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...were strict child-labor limits. Infringement of the LSB rulings would be misdemeanors punishable by a $500 fine, six months in jail or both. Any such supervision over U. S. industry is naturally least acceptable to the South, whose industrial platform is that its climate and general living conditions diminish living costs and hence make equitable a lower wage rate than the North. Although the provisions of the bill were flexible enough to allow for regional differentials, such differentials might well be too small to suit Southerners. Of the Rules Committee's 14 members, four are Republicans, five Southern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Wages & Hours | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

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