Word: establisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made partners by means of a Federal Control Board consisting of four members of the Cabinet and an executive chairman. Through their trade associations a majority of each branch of industry was to draw up agreements to ration production, fix prices, eliminate cut-throat competition, set working hours, establish a fair wage scale. The Federal Control Board would approve such agreements as were in the public interest. Others would be ordered revised or scrapped. The anti-trust laws would be waived to permit each agreement to become effective. Minorities in each industry which tried to buck majority agreements would...
Last week Rivera cashed his $14,000 check, went to see his lawyer. He was told he might sue to establish an artist's dubious right under an "implied covenant" to force exhibition of his work, but that he had no legal right to the fresco he had sold and been paid for. He fell back on "a moral question" of the artist's right "to express himself; and the right to receive the judgment of the world, of posterity." Said he: "They have no right, this little group of commercial minded people, to assassinate my work...
...fierce eyes peering intently from beneath his big brow crowned with a stiff brush of upstanding grey hair, was on trial for alleged evasion of income taxes: 1) in 1929 by making a fictitious sale of 18,300 shares of National City stock to his wife to establish a loss of $2,872,000, thereby avoiding a tax of $728,000; 2) in 1930 by making a fictitious sale to William D. Thornton, president of Greene...
Cananea Copper Co., to establish a loss of $759,000, and failing to report a bonus of $666,666.67 from National City Co., thereby avoiding a tax of $130,000. Penalty if convicted: not more than five years in jail nor more than $10,000 fine...
...science, philosophy, love, friendship, recreation. ¶Humanism is for "a socialized and co-operative economic order-a shared life in a shared world." Its adherents say that it will: "Affirm life rather than deny it ... seek to elicit the possibilities of life, not flee from it ... establish the conditions of a satisfactory life for all, not merely for the few." Most Humanists come from Unitarian. Universalist, Baptist and Congregationalist churches. In recent years 60 Unitarian ministers have embraced Humanism. Their church was dismayed but could do nothing, its own creed being far from stringent. There are Humanist groups in Manhattan...