Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eight major producing companies had only until November 1 to answer the U. S. Department of Justice indictment for monopolistic practices, ostensible purpose of the meeting was to discuss ways and means of meeting this and other major crises, such as restrictions on cinema distribution in Italy and Germany, labor troubles on the West Coast, conduct of the Motion Pictures' Greatest Year campaign. Actually, word leaked from Hollywood that the real purpose of the meeting was something else entirely: to consider ways and means of checking anti-Semitism in so far as it affects movie revenues...
Last week in Manhattan, at the 17th Annual Congress of Anesthetists new, safe drugs for relief of labor pains were enthusiastically discussed by Drs. S. Le Roy Sahler, chief of anesthesia in the Rochester, N. Y. General Hospital, Peter Graffagnino, head of the gynecology department of Louisiana State University Medical Center in New Orleans, and Louis Wralter Seyler of Commerce, Texas...
...organs involved in childbirth and effectively killed pain. The efficiency of motor nerves which aid in propelling a child out of the birth canal was not impaired. Chief merit of the new drugs is that each has a different length of action, and doctors predicting the length of labor can inject a drug with sufficiently lasting effects...
Father Rice, a founder of Pittsburgh's labor-aiding Catholic Radical Alliance (TIME, June 28, 1937) and of St. Joseph's House of Shelter, for which he says "a wealthy Catholic who hates my radical guts kicks in a hundred bucks a week," retorted: "We will accept the outstretched hand of Communists only when it ceases to be Communist and relinquishes the doctrines and tactics that have put it beyond the pale of normality and ethics." Father Rice and Communist Hathaway appeared agreed on one thing only: that anti-Semitism is "Fascist propaganda." The audience did not record...
While Detroit hummed, the rest of the U. S. also contributed to the din of reviving times. Carloadings hit a 1938 high of 726,612-23,000 above the previous week but still 79,000 under the same week year ago. Secretary of 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...