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...powers similar to those of the Automobile Labor Board. General Johnson promised that all three of these labor representatives should be picked from the United Textile Workers if the fact was established that the union was the only important cotton textile union and had at least 200,000 bona fide members. This was not closed shop but it was a step toward...
...bonds were exempt from registration unless they were to be sold in interstate commerce. Normally an $8,000,000 bond issue is distributed throughout the land, but Chairman Dahl and his bankers-Hayden, Stone; Kuhn, Loeb; Lehman Brothers; J. & W. Seiigman-decided to sell BMT bonds only to bona fide residents of New York State. Though use of the mails is permitted in connection with the intrastate sale of unregistered securities. Chairman Dahl and friends took no chances. No advertisements were to be published, no prospectuses prepared. Each & every offer was to be by word of mouth. For any major...
...travelling companions an English communist and an American capitalist. The former was more and more disgusted with Russia because it turned out not to be bona fide communism; the later was more an more interested in Russia, a Russia which could build the Dneiper Dam. The author is always of two minds. He is sceptical as to the effects of propaganda throttling school books, cinemas, and the press. Children learn English to the tune, "Little American boy is hungry. . American boy wishes he could come to Russia, where he can got enough to cat." He doubts whether under such...
...fail to extend its benevolence to creative geniuses in the arts who were faced with starvation when the market for their products, like that for wheat, coal, and rubber, failed. Like the Medici, like Henry VIII, like Riche-lieu, a sovereign people undertook to subsidize bona fide creators...
...committee: Bald, stocky, little (4 ft. 6 in.) Major J. Divine (or Morgan J. Divine) was supposedly born George Baker somewhere in the South, will reveal nothing of his life prior to a dozen years ago when he settled in Sayville, L. I. First running a bona fide employment bureau, he soon began to evangelize a following of blacks and whites which quickly swelled to 2.000 visitors per day. He now operates "Kingdoms" in New York, Newark, Baltimore, Washington, Bridgeport. Most of his followers, "of high as well as of low intellectual capacity," believe...