Word: laidler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poor psychology. A reaction set in. In "safe" areas, 2,000 cinemas opened, reported exceptional business. Actors went on the road: 73-year-old Dame Marie Tempest in Dear Octopus, John Gielgud in The Importance of Being Earnest, Diana Wynyard in Design for Living. Christmas pantomime Producer Francis Laidler went ahead with plans for Mother Goose, The Ugly Sisters, three other ?40.000 productions in which the hoarse-voiced, hairy-legged, loosely hairpinned male comedians' parts would be taken for the first time by women, releasing the men for war action. London night life revived. The Cafe de Paris...
Among the others who have agreed to speak are Harry W. Laidler, who will join Norman Thomas in discussing socialism: the Honorable John Dickinson. Assistant Secretary of Commerce speaking on the New Deal: Max Eastman, author and editor, who will explain communism, and Seward Collins, editor of the American Review, whose topic will be Pascism...
...spite of Sherman anti-trust acts and 'big sticks,' the movement toward monopoly continues," said Harry W. Laidler, Executive Director of the League for Industrial Democracy, last night at a meeting of the Liberal Club in the Lowell House Common Room. "However," he continued, "big monopolies make Socialism easy." Dr. Laidler also claimed that the separation of ownership and management which is so widespread today invalidates the argument that industry can be run only with profit as an incentive...
...Laidler opened his speech with a description of the vast extent of monopoly in certain fields. According to figures given by him, the United States Steel Corporation controls one half to two-thirds of the iron ore of the country, the Mellon family controls 90 per cent of the aluminum ore, and that seven-eighths of the chewing-gum in the United States is manufactured by Wrigley. He also said that one per cent of the banks of the country control more capital than the other 99 per cent combined...
...Laidler concluded with the statement that he thought that in spite of the N.R.A. the monopoly movement would continue...