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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flesh entertainment" is a "meat show" to the less elegant rank & file of the theatrical profession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 21, 1937 | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...record by a U. S. advertiser. A puzzle contest axiom is that half the contestants will drop out before the finish. When the Old Gold contest closed last week, 85% of the starters were still hanging on for a chance at the unprecedented $100,000 first prize. On file in Manhattan were at least 2,000,000 individual folders crammed with complete sets of puzzle answers, from which winners probably cannot be picked before July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Old Golden Harvest | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

...Manhattan the rank & file insurgents of A. F. of L.'s International Seamen's Union who staged the "unauthorized" maritime strike in Atlantic and Gulf ports last autumn (TIME, Nov. 9 et seq.) finally made a clean break with their old leaders, set up a new National Maritime Union claiming 28,000 members. Announced were plans to join C. I. O., to demand National Labor Relations Board elections to decide whether the old union or the new should have exclusive bargaining rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Strikes-of-the-Week | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...Give up all secret vices. The German secret police keep a file on Soviet citizens, all neatly classified under such headings as "fondness for drink," "political instability," "late hours," "dishonesty and moral perversions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: In Case of Spies | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...American Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s Manhattan offices at No. 195 Broadway fortnight ago, file clerks checked & counted proxies in preparation for the annual meeting of the world's biggest private enterprise. One proxy was sent to the office of President Walter Sherman Gifford. Smiling, he read: "Don't let them get you mad, Mr. Gifford." As things turned out, there was little for suave Mr. Gifford to be upset about when he faced 250 A. T. & T. stockholders at the meeting. The older member of the ubiquitous Gilbert family-Lewis-was on hand to ask an embarrassing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Meetings | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

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