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With conservative railroad executives the least popular member of the Interstate Commerce Commission is Joseph Bartlett Eastman of Massachusetts. They consider him "dangerously radical." Vainly did they implore President Hoover not to reappoint him. Last week in Manhattan Commissioner Eastman, twelve years in office, made a speech about government ownership which explained in part why railmen dislike him. Excerpts...
...opera, pills) after which he led the Diaghilev ballet for five years. In 1923 he went to Rochester where he was helped by his strong, handsome appearance. In Rochester last year he found a second wife for himself, pretty, 21-year-old Janet ("Jansy") Lewis, a student at the Eastman School of Music. (His engagement to his good friend, Mrs. Christian Holmes of Fleischmann's Yeast wealth, had previously been rumored and denied.) Goossens' hobbies are Shakespeare and shark fishing. His best known composition: the opera Judith done to the libretto of the late Arnold Bennett (TIME, July...
...field, pipe-line and refinery employes. "In line with practice generally established . . . aiding in the relief of the unemployment situation," explained the announcement. Back in 1929, the five-day week was a sociological movement, widely publicized. Lately it has been a corporate retrench- ment, little discussed. Westinghouse and Eastman Kodak in their factories have been recent converts to the five-day week. Some Ford plants run on a five-day, some on a three-and-one-half-day schedule. But the five-day week of 1931 differs in one notable respect from the five-day week...
...Eastman Kodak Co., great manufacturer of rare chemicals, sells glutathione for $283.50 an ounce...
...librettist. Richard Leroy Stokes felt the creative urge when he was still writing sharp musical criticisms for the New York Evening World. He wrote a libretto in a combination of rhymed and unrhymed verse, dedicated it to his exotic-looking wife, then asked Director Howard Hanson of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester to write the music, please. Composer Hanson is now more than half done...