Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After graduating from college and the Law School in 1911, Gregg practiced law with a well-known Boston firm. He later traveled around the world in the capacity of private secretary. During this trip he spent considerable time in India, China, and Japan. Since 1915 he has been working on labor relations with many institutions, sometimes for employers and again for the working side of the question...
...diminutive, elegant Dress Manufacturer Maurice Rentner. Mr. Rentner writes most of the descriptive copy for his own little fashion magazine, Quality Street. Born in Poland, he started his career in the Manhattan dress market as an errand boy carrying thread to shirtwaist makers. He now owns a manufacturing firm with six factories, makes dresses retailing from $55 up. Mr. Rentner says the court fight now threatening his Guild is at bottom an effort by retailers to escape the Guild's stabilizing policies on discounts and returns, that the question of style piracy regulation in cheaper grades is just...
...Superimposed or pieced together, however ingeniously, they made little better than a crazy quilt. But last week appeared a pattern of the U.S.S.R. that was no piecemeal snippet but cut out of whole cloth. As all political tailors knew, it was the painstakingly honest work of an old reliable firm: Webb & Webb. Readers of Soviet Communism: A New Civilisation? might not like the pattern it showed, but at last they could be sure they had at least seen the whole...
...that the firm of Webb & Webb is old and reliable does not mean that it is also conservative. Longtime members of England's famed Fabian Society, Beatrice and Sidney Webb have grown old together in the Socialist faith. Their compendious, accurate, statistical books have been their well-brought-up children. As busy as ants', and no noisier, they have never mounted a soapbox nor slapped a policeman in their lives. Bernard Shaw was the wisecracking Fabian whip; the Webbs were the wheel horses. Climax to their plodding career came in 1929, when the Labor Government made Sidney Webb...
...cite the widespread popular discussion of proposed laws. The marriage law of 1927 was thus argued over for a year before adoption; the 'liquidation of the kulaks" for more than two. To the reader's astonished question: Is Stalin, then, not a dictator? the Webbs return a firm No. "The Government of the U.S.S.R. during the past decade has been clearly no better than that of a committee. Our inference is that it has been, in fact, the very opposite of a dictatorship. It has been, as it still is, government by whole series of committees." They explain...