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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...signed) E. D. STANDIFORD "President of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company" Sequel to the above: To this day, 60 odd years later, Danville passengers must hire taxis and drive three miles to catch an L. & N. train for east or west. To assuage their grief, awakened citizens of Danville induced the Cincinnati Southern Railway to survey its municipally owned "Queen and Crescent'' route via Danville, Ky., but notwithstanding this the stubborn old L. & N. refuses to make connection at the crossing and I've seen the latter's passenger trains pull out leaving Q. & C. passengers...
...front cover) Prime and permanent solution for unemployment, in Washington's eyes, is NRA. Principal threat to that solution is that employers will not hire more men at higher wages. Last week General Johnson was busy with industry trying to work that threat out of the recovery picture (see p. 13). Second most important threat to NRA is that employes may decline to work under existing terms. Last week thousands of them were threatening that very thing because they wanted what General Johnson was trying to get them- shorter hours, higher pay. Moreover, the threat was so aimed that...
...encouraged functionaries to make brief factual recitals to visitors (Bell boys: "Happy Days. Sir; 20,000 speakeasies in the City."). With the election of Mayor Kelly, he returned to the envelope business. Explained he : "There is no salary for me. . . . I paid out for a secretary, stenographers, automobile hire, telegrams, telephones...
...distinctions wished upon us by your reviewer. After giving various intimate details with respect to our private lives (which would appear to have little to do with the merits or demerits of our book), the reviewer proceeds: "Both rebuffed globe-girdling Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks when he tried to hire them for small parts in his Mr. Robinson Crusoe. Both have been made (by decree of Governor Léonce Jore of French Oceania) chieftains in the Kilyan tribe...
...weekly assessments on its ten members.* The most anonymous news service in the world, it never receives credit in print, never gives or gets a byline. Often City News merely supplements what a newspaper's own man gathers by himself. Without it, however, each paper would have to hire 12 or 15 extra legmen, could never send large staffs out of town on big stories. In a pinch, a Manhattan editor could get out a presentable paper with only City News and a couple of good rewrite...