Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...court recessed for Labor Day week end. Prosecutor Dewey announced that "the people's case is rapidly drawing to a conclusion...
...winning every case he brought to trial, then spent two undistinguished decades in criminal law and local politics before he was elected to fill the Senate vacancy left by Hoover Vice President Charles Curtis in 1930. Two years later he won a practically foolproof campaign as a Roosevelt and Labor man against old Republican Senator Henry Allen...
When Times attorneys sat down, up rose a friend of the court, Labor Lawyer Abraham Lincoln Wirin, who stands for everything the Times opposes. "Attorney T. B. Cosgrove for the Times," began Friend Wirin, "said yesterday that he considers it the finest daily journal printed in the English language. I consider it the worst." From this Voltairian beginning, Lawyer Wirin, appearing in behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union, went on to a long and earnest defense of the Times's right to print whatever it likes unless there is "clear and imminent" danger to the Government...
When it was announced three weeks ago that Harold Thomas Henry (Boake) Carter's contract to broadcast for General Foods would not be renewed for the last quarter of the year, all parties to the agreement were unanimous in denying that Boake Carter's unpopularity with labor and the Government had anything to do with the failure to renew. Last week, when Newscaster Carter made his last broadcast for Post Toasties and Huskies, Announcer Erik Rolf repeated the official explanation-that it had been impossible to buy desirable time on the fall network schedules (TIME...
...price war, this was merely revision in line with more efficient production and distribution. In May, FORTUNE estimated that for a $15 Schick Shaver, the motor costs $1 or less; the head, about 50?; case, cord and indirect labor, another $1.25; overhead, advertising and sales, perhaps another $2.50. Total costs then amount to about $5, leaving a neat $10 net for dealer and manufacturer. That Schick, first in the field, should lead in price-cutting was no surprise; that Packard, which has always been out to beard Schick, should cut further was no surprise either. Big surprise was that General...