Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tipped its hand on the New Deal thesis that existing patent laws foster monopoly. Intervening in a Supreme Court patent-violation suit against General Talking Pictures Corp. by American Telephone & Telegraph Co., the Department of Justice contended that "public policy cannot tolerate the extension of the patent privilege to control the use to which the consumer may put the article after it has been marketed. It is unnecessary to any legitimate exploitation of the patent, and is a vicious practice which the common judgment of the people will condemn and which the Government must outlaw...
...parade in the rise from Depression II's rut. Last week, however, the No. 1 U. S. industry appeared ready to resume its leadership. With automobile production for the week jumping from 45,000 to 62,000 units (88,000 year ago), President Alfred P. Sloan Jr. of General Motors made front-page news across the nation and inspired a clever cartoon by announcing that G. M. was rehiring 35,000 men, restoring the 10% to 30% pay cuts of last February. This meant an annual boost to G. M.'s payroll of $55,000,000 with...
...Labor Frances Perkins reported that placements by the U. S. Employment Service reached a new peak in September, while applications fell for the first time in a year. Steel, power and cotton textile output were up. Two fat refunding issues went to a premium in Wall Street. Spurred by General Motors, stocks climbed to new 1938 levels...
...publisher of the weekly Pittsburgh Courier (circulation: 145,000), 2) national chairman of the Negro division of the Democratic Party for the election of 1932, 3) former occupant of one of the highest Federal offices ever held by a Negro (Special Assistant to the U. S. Attorney General, 1933-35). His name: Robert Lee Vann...
...Buren, Ark., became an itinerant laborer, vaudeville comedian and hobo until he joined the Marines in 1917. Most noteworthy achievement of Robin Burns up to this time was the invention and mastery of the bazooka, a homemade horn composed of two gas pipes and a whiskey funnel, which General Pershing once borrowed and tried to play in a Paris restaurant...