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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...emotional Deputy WPAdministrator in Washington, who last fortnight bluntly told WPAsters how to vote (see p. 13), last week bluntly stated to the Conference his basic conception of Work Relief as a permanent U. S. institution. He defended the "idiotic idea that it was the duty of government to find its citizens work." "Under modern conditions of depressed purchasing power, this assertion of the right to work, the right to a job, is not visionary social idealism - it is simple economic realism, for it is the quickest and cheapest way to attain full economic recovery. . . . Our purpose is putting these...
Nowadays no employer with a grain of sense would tire his men for joining a union. Once they have joined, the Wagner Act leaves the boss no choice except 1) to recognize their union, or 2) find some other excuse for getting rid of them. No fools, directors of the Richland Center (Wis.) Co-operative Creamery last week forestalled NLRB prosecution by promising to deal with an A. F. of L. union which some of their employes had joined. Next day five of the six directors stood by while 500 farmers racketed into Richland Center...
...denied the charge, expressed doubt as to the accuracy of Mr. Sandys' information. Thereupon Sandys drew up a formal question to be asked in the House, as a courtesy submitted the question and his information to the little War Secretary in advance. Shocked was Mr. Hore-Belisha to find that the "information" had come from a secret document drawn up by a top-rank Air officer, which contained emergency directions showing the exact number and positions of guns during the critical German-Austrian Anschluss weekend. Since M. P.s are not allowed to hold active commissions in the regular armed...
...Fairbanks Jr.), who not unnaturally supposes that she has selected him as the victim of some sort of racket. Disgusted with modelling, Nicole, abetted by an ex-chorus girl (Helen Broderick) and a parsimonious headwaiter (Mischa Auer), next risks the headwaiter's savings on a frantic effort to find herself a rich fiance. Unfortunately, no sooner does she find what looks like a good prospect than she discovers that the young executive whom she encountered as a model is her suitor's best friend and determined not to allow him to be victimized by a female fortune hunter...
...masquerading moppet but a real ordained parson, the Rev. Charles Jaynes Jr. was in the act of marrying the young couple. The ceremony performed, he ordered the groom to "kiss the bride." Then he added in fine fatuous style: "Come around tomorrow night. I think you'll find the sermon interesting. It is on the five wise and five foolish virgins...