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...devising. "I just wouldn't sing them," said Actor Cohan, who is no less famed for his loyalty than for his wide talent, "because they were about personal friends of mine." Actor Cohan's extempore lyrics were not repeated. Co-Author Kaufman pooh-poohed rumors of backstage discord over the incident. Said he smoothly, "Everything is smooth and lovely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Cohan & Friends | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

Tonight at 7:15 o'clock the Pierian Sodality opens its 130th anniversary season with a sight-reading evening in Sanders Theatre. Club members state that the session of "cord and discord" will last until it stops...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SODALITY TO SPONSOR SIGHT-READING PARTY | 10/5/1937 | See Source »

...Amid discord, one thing every United Automobile Worker could agree on, however, was that the first and biggest obstacle in their union path was Henry Ford. The delegates stamped and whistled when Wisconsin's labor-loving Governor Philip Fox La Follette observed: "Henry Ford is probably a nice fellow personally. . . . He just doesn't understand modern trends. He has his feet in 1937 and his head in 1837." Cried Homer Martin: "We'll say 'Henry, if you want to continue to make and sell autos in America, you'd better get ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Problem Child | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

...DUET IN DISCORD-Elizabeth Garner- Knopf ($2). Unblushing but tastefully written tale of the Caribbean love-affair between a 43-year-old English woman and a youthful, deceptively virile writer, as told by the bitterly frustrated woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Jul. 19, 1937 | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

Inflation means different things to different people-breadlines, bushel-basket currency, ballooning credit or simply whacking good times. Whatever the discord in definition, there is perfect harmony on one point: inflation means higher prices for all. Oddly enough, there was much more talk of inflation two or three years ago than there is today, when prices are mounting faster than at any time since the post-War "boom."' That "boom" in good measure was pure inflation brought on by War financing, and the subsequent collapse was highlighted by a terrific crash in commodity prices, just as the last depression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Commodity Chart | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

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