Word: etting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Years ago-30 anyway and perhaps 40-a bill was introduced in Congress providing that our country be known henceforth as "Usona," short for United States of North America [TIME, March 13 et seq.]. Whereupon John Sharp Williams of Mississippi moved as a substitute that instead of "Usona" the name be "Weuns." The bill got no farther...
Fletcher, Confucius, et...
...year after TVA's simmering, saintly Chairman Arthur Ernest Morgan got himself fired for quarreling publicly with co-Directors Harcourt Morgan and David Lilienthal (TIME, March 14,1938, et seq.), a joint House & Senate committee which investigated his complaints that the TVA had been mismanaged last week produced three findings...
Last week a U. S. District Court in Philadelphia decided the case of Apex Hosiery Co. v. Branch i, American Federation of Hosiery Workers, William Leader et al. (TIME, March 27). The verdict: Branch i & its President Bill Leader would have to pay the well nigh impossible sum of $711,392.55 in recompense for damage done Apex's plant and business in a strike two years...
...Bernays, Byoir et al. are at their best when given a specific assignment-like the Philco promotion or Byoir's present job of persuading the public that chain store taxes are bad. But this is really only super pressagentry, less concerned with giving clients a corporate soul than with giving them the appearance...