Word: evils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Federal Trade Commission last week told Adolph Zukor, Jesse L. Lasky and their Famous Players Lasky Corp., now known as Paramount-Famous-Lasky Corp (TIME, March 28), that, although they were by no means criminals, they had none the less been doing evil to their cinema competitors and were in effect malefactors. Their trade practices had been monopolistic because: 1) By owning or controlling 368 theatres on June 30, 1926 (more than 550 now) the corporation had substantially stifled competition. 2) By renting films only in blocks, exhibitors had to accept pictures of poor drawing power. 3) By buying...
What is this Companionate Marriage idea which has made Judge Lindsey almost a symbol of evil in many U. S. minds? Briefly, it is based on the fact that some marriages are entered into with the expectation of the wife's bearing children, that other marriages are entered into with no such expectation. Why not, urges Judge Lindsey, recognize the childless marriage as a different but legal form of union? Let a boy and a girl who wish to marry, but who cannot well afford to have children, marry and, with the aid of widespread birth-control knowledge, take...
...only $3.49. There is the King Solomon's Wisdom Stone, "very valuable and charged with invisible life." There is the Black Cat's Wishbone, excellent for making dice behave and prompting the selection of winning horses. And there is the Lucky Turrarie, a general charm to keep evil spirits away from the homes it blesses...
Another news item began: "Watch for this man," relating the evil practice of a "large, well dressed man" who had slipped from a cab on Fifth Ave., ostensibly to change a $20 bill, and never returned...
...second question is of a more profitable sort. It is, what evil will result from this advance of practical education? or was it not folly in the beginning to set up state colleges upon the same bases and with the same objects as private colleges? Public institutions, even though practical, may well carry the burden of vindicating scientific knowledge and careful study as an approach to everyday professional and industrial tasks. And private institutions may retain the task they have long ago assumed and steadily followed, that of proving to those who will attend the proof, that the knowledge...