Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...site of PWA's $20,000,000 Grand River Dam, last week held its first mayoralty election. Candidates were a sad-eyed grocer named Mrs. Vera Silar, who stood for law & order, and a buxom ex-cowgirl named Billy Baker, who stood for fun & frolic. Idea was to give each boss woman 30 days to try out her ideas, then incorporate under whichever regime Disney liked best. When Disney's Commercial Club tried to limit the ballot to property owners, dam hands rebelled, gave Cowgirl Baker first whack at the job, 603 votes to 201. Chirped...
...generally interpreted by the courts so far, the idea of the Wagner Act is that whereas the employer needs no protection, the worker needs plenty. In two cases last week the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals notably veered from that interpretation...
...world, bigger than any U. S. ship save the late (German-built) Leviathan. Holland-America's two new managing directors, Frans C. Bouman, longtime general manager of Rotterdam Lloyd for the Far East, and Willem H. de Monchy of the Van Ommern shipping firm, vetoed the idea of a Government subsidy. They did get a 20-year loan of 12,000,000 gulden from the Government...
...propaganda. If ever there were an educational mission for Harvard it is in teaching her sons not to believe everything that everybody tells them. Today the nation is beset on all sides by people and interests of every shade and color, bent on selling them something--be it an idea for the economic salvation of the nation or a simple old-fashioned gold brick. The appeal to people's emotions is often so subtly made that decisions of momentous importance to the nation are governed by whim and whimsy, simply because clever propaganda deprives people of their power to reason...
...with Roland Redmond, counsel for the Exchange, a few hours before Richard Whitney & Co. was suspended. Lawyer Mason said: "Redmond said that the attitude of the SEC was that this situation should not be allowed to break and that a Commissioner Hanes was here in New York with the idea that the SEC was ready to cooperate, with the idea of continuing the firm in business for some time, with the idea that some orderly liquidation could be effected...