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Large national manufacturing companies frequently employ recent college graduates to train for sales work. This training, lasting from three months to two years, may be formal or informal. Prospective salesmen learn about the products of the company by actual work in the factory, and also something of company merchandising policy and sales correspondence in the general sales office: sales instruction they receive in the field under senior salesmen...
Some orations are of definite greatness, and the speech of Adolf Hitler to the German Reichstag last week was in that class. It has always been Herr Hitler's technique, ever since his Nazi Party set out to thrash every other German party, to employ both the heavy Teuton bludgeon and the sweet Teuton sugar-cookie. By being intermittently sweet to the people he intermittently slugged, the Realmleader has made himself what he is today. Last week he asked Germans to vote overwhelmingly once more, on March 29, that they are satisfied...
Best means, he concluded, would be to set up a great Industrial Adjustment Board to make contracts with corporations as AAA once did with farmers. These contracts would specify how much each plant should produce, how many workers they should employ, how high wages should be. what prices should be charged. For fulfilling these contracts each business would receive benefits (like AAA benefits) paid for by production taxes (like processing taxes...
...relief of artists. Their main object has been the mural decoration of public buildings completed under the New Deal throughout the land. As part of the vast WPA appropriation, Director Holger Cahill, who was once on the staff of the Newark Museum, got $3,000,000 with which to employ about 5,000 artists, 90% of whom must be on relief rolls, at wages of from $69 to $105 a month. Simultaneously the Treasury Department quietly set up the first permanent Federal art department in the Section of Painting & Sculpture, which is not a relief project at all. Its jury...
Last August, Works Progress Administration put Mrs. Hallie Flanagan of the Vassar Experimental Theatre in charge of its new Federal Theatre Project, whose aim was to employ idle stage folk "in the profession for which they have been trained." Since then FTP has made 9,000 jobs, put on circuses, marionette shows, vaudeville programs, revivals of the classics at high schools, playgrounds, Y. M. C. A.'s from Springfield, Mass, to San Diego, Calif. In show business only seven months, the U. S. Government last week reached the goal of all theatrical enterprises: Broadway...