Word: grand
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...Venice itself has dwindled to about the same number of citizens (170,000) as it held in 1500. To halt their city's decline, Venetian "progressives" propose to build a "little Manhattan" on an artificial island at the western end of Venice, well away from the famed Grand Canal. Among radical changes proposed: i) some buildings would be small skyscrapers; 2) streets would be open to automobiles. The planners' slogan: "A city that is only a museum is already becoming a cemetery." Catchy as the slogan is, and eager as they, are to make the city prosper, Venice...
...Justice Department's Antitrust Division last week opened a long-planned campaign to apply the antitrust laws to labor unions. Indicted in Manhattan after nine months of grand jury hearings was the boss of Local 25 of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, the biggest local in the blousemaking industry. The Justice Department charged that the I.L.G.W.U. local took part, along with three trade associations, in a conspiracy to fix prices of ladies' blouses, a $300 million industry, and to allocate business among blousemakers. Also charged with criminal conspiracy was Harry Strasser, a partner with slain...
Drawing the Line. What the Justice Department hopes to prove in the I.L.G.W.U. case, and in a number of other indictments expected soon from grand juries sitting in Omaha, Chicago and other cities, is that labor unions are entitled to exemption from the Sherman Act under the Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injunction Act only so long as they confine themselves to negotiating higher wages, or other legitimate labor objectives. When they step over the line and begin to use labor union power to fix prices and allocate markets, then the Justice Department intends to wheel up the big guns...
...Vanbrughs made fools of themselves in one way or another, but they did so in the grand manner. There was Eustace Vanbrugh (born 1834), a truly Victorian loony with an army of servants to command. (Linklater suggests that the servant class has disappeared only to re-emerge as civil servants taking revenge, in the name of socialism, on their former masters.) Eustace's lunacy revolved around the theological implications of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species. He would bribe maidservants with a guinea in order to investigate whether or not they had tails: discovery of a vestigial caudal...
...Sins of Rose Bernd (German). A steaming plateful of gravy-and-dumplings naturalism in the grand German manner. Nevertheless, this modernization of a Gerhart Hauptmann play about the horrors of unmarried motherhood is often moving. With Maria Schell...