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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...congressional junket to Canada to study the 4% Sales Tax there (TIME, Nov. 30). The idea was put before the Ways & Means Committee by his spokesmen when it was drafting the revenue bill with advice from an imported Canadian expert (TIME, March 7). Scant hearings were held. The rank & file of the House membership were not consulted. The Treasury made no recommendation. The committee put the tax into its bill simply because it appeared to be the easiest and handiest method of raising cash...
...Capitalism. In the last decade he was the prime example of the benevolent despot of big business, the man who led labor along the path of mild Socialism to the ultimate felicity of two cars in every garage. When the mirage faded, the tendency of the victimized rank and file naturally was to turn to the false leaders, among whom Ford was the foremost. But in reality he was much a victim...
...court that he has made "every reasonable effort" to settle the strike; to show under oath that unlawful acts have been committed or threatened against him and to convince the judge that failure to enjoin the strikers will do him "substantial and irreparable" injury. He must also file an adequate bond to recompense the strikers in case the injunction is quashed...
...girls from entering their vocation. Last week Dr. May Ayres Burgess of the A. N. A. complained: "Any nurse, to make a reasonable income in her field at the present time, must either be unusually competent, unusually lucky or more skillful in personal competition than are the rank and file." The usual fee for a private nurse has been $6 to $7 a day and found, for a 12-hr. day. But she worked on the average only three out of five days, getting $1,200 to $1,500 cash per year. Now nurses can be found to work...
...behind. Iron enters poor disabled Mr. Robertson's soul when he notices the lecherous glances with which the base Russian colonel is denuding Actress Desiree Tabor, a soprano with whom Mr. Robertson is in love. She is an Austrian countess. Somewhere during this part of the proceedings a file of Muscovites tramp in, begin singing "Light up! Take out your pipe and fill it to the brim-" whereupon they all start smoking cigarets. Marching By, in spite of its unconsciously jovial libretto, should get credit for some pleasant melodies by Jean Gilbert...