Word: ende
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...earned. When young Mr. Carey's young deputy, William Mitchell, turned this down, New York labor mediators suggested that Mergenthaler continue to pay 95% of present wages, put 5% in escrow until September 1939. To this Messrs. Mackey and Mitchell last week consented. At fiscal year's end, an impartial arbitrator will go over the Mergenthaler books. If Mergenthaler is in the red, the company takes the amount of its deficit out of the $100,000 nut, gives back the rest to the workers. If the deficit is $100,000 or more the workers of course get nothing...
...research projects. The Department has already announced Civil Service examinations for 25 chemists to serve as project leaders. Sites were chosen, the Secretary tactfully explained, near other scientific and industrial experimenters in order to provide a "stimulus to creative thinking." Deadline for starting work on all four projects: end of this fiscal year (June 30 next...
...general impression in London was that Dr. Schacht returned to Berlin at week's end emptyhanded. (His "private visit" had included a secret conference with U. S. Lawyer George Rublee, director of the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees.) If Dr. Schacht had any hopes that Britain would call off her trade war with Germany, he must have been disap pointed when the House of Commons unanimously advanced through its second reading a new Export Credits Bill, which raises from $250,000,000 to $375,000,000 the amount of obligations the Government can incur in "insuring foreign trade" and provides...
...high Shavian wit is Androcles entertaining, but for low Shavian tom-foolery-particularly near the end when the play bursts its buttons, when Ferrovius licks all the gladiators in sight, when Androcles waltzes with the lion, when Caesar is chased by it, claims the credit for taming it, orders everybody to turn Christian. Such high jinks do not make one wonder what Shaw "means" by it all; they make one wonder whether he may not have had a hand in Hellzapoppin...
...First of the year's-end lists of best pictures of the year was released by the Committee on Exceptional Photoplays of the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. Best English-speaking picture: The Citadel. Best foreign-language picture: Grand Illusion...