Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Railmen's Insurance. Although failing to fashion a crutch for the staggering railroads (see col. 1), Congress last week passed a bill taking railway employes out of the unemployment insurance systems of the States and putting them under a Federal system handled by the Railroad Retirement Board. Benefits: $1.75 to $3 per day for up to 80 days of idleness per year. Source of revenue: a 3% payroll tax on wages up to $300 per month...
...while he drinks, chases women, finally stabs a man over a "maniac beauty" and skips for good. And although by this time May has six children, she can still say: "Ain't life funny and grand?" Her oldest son turns gangster, is killed. Three daughters become schoolteacher, waitress, fashion model. When two other children become famous Hollywood stars, May goes to live in a Beverly Hills mansion. But she remains unchanged, continues to charm everybody with her full-blooded Bowery simplicity. As with Author Brinig's other novels, the most remarkable thing about May Flavin is that...
...picture of the world. Said New York University's Class Orator Paul H. Kahan: "The boys are prepared to lay down their caps and gowns and accept the pick and shovel of the WPA, if necessary. . . ." At all this Scripps-Howard Columnist Hugh S. Johnson stormed: "The present fashion of going around this nation telling people how miserable they are, how rotten their country is, what little opportunity they have to better themselves, and therefore what their government ought to do and is going to do for them is ... a contemptible kind of demagoguery. . . . The plain hard truth...
...Designed to lessen landing hazards by allowing the plane to "fly right into the field" instead of settling in the ticklish "three-point" fashion of standard jobs...
...handled railroad reorganizations, as it floated the first loan to-Cuba. In 1885, James Speyer, after being bound apprentice to the family firms in Paris, London, Frankfurt, went to the U. S. firm. For at least the past 30 years he has run it in an arbitrary, single-minded fashion. He floated a vast amount of foreign loans, financed railroads, built power plants in Manila and a railroad in Bolivia. But the War upset the applecart of international finance. In 1922 Speyer's London firm dissolved; in 1934 the Lazard Speyer-Ellissen banks in Berlin and Frankfurt dissolved. Speyer...