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...sentence "Last week these names made this news" brings to my memory an excerpt of correspondence, I believe accredited to Samuel Johnson, in which he answers a request for news by the assertion "No. not a single new." Perhaps you should change your caption to read, "Last week these names made these news...
...disturbed by the Congressional tax situation were six famed Republicans and five famed Democrats that they signed a public appeal for speedy action and mailed it to Senate Majority Leader Watson, Senate Minority Leader Robinson, Acting Chairman Crisp of the House Ways & Means Committee* and House Minority Leader Snell. Excerpt: "On behalf of vast numbers of our fellow citizens, we appeal through you to the Senate and the House to lay aside every form of partisanship and quickly to unite to adopt a balanced Federal budget as well as to enact a plan of taxation . economically sound, fair . . . and without...
Richard Whitney was reelected, for the third time, to presidency of the New York Stock Exchange. There was no opposition. Excerpt from the Exchange's resolution: "Never before has a president of the Exchange been subjected to such a trial . . . because never before has the modern business world passed through such a shattering convulsion...
...Publix, the cinema chain for which oldtime Coloratura Luisa Tetrazzina has been singing this season. But he was ready with the statement he promised his public in connection with his refusal to take a salary cut at the Metropolitan and the severance of his connection there (TIME, May 9). Excerpt: "Mr. Gatti-Casazza had a grudge against me. . . . None of my colleagues had a long contract to protect as I had. . . . They [the 32 artists who signed a letter protesting against Tenor Gigli's esprit de corps'] have acted in a tricky...
...sell more copies, fun-making Ballyhoo last week told newsdealers a story by and about a newsdealer. Excerpt: "... 'These imitators are LOUSY anyway and they clutter up my stand . . . and the hell with them.' ... So the WISE NEWSDEALER threw away the GOOEYS and FOOEYS and SLAPPOS and NERTSIES . . . AND BUSINESS BOOMED AGAIN...