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About a year ago dapper Brother Isidore decided that something should be done to lessen international cinema competition. When he mentioned this to Joe Schenck, that U. S. cineman agreed with him. And since plenty of cash might further the idea, they mentioned it to Nick Schenck, who not only runs the most consistently profitable U. S. cinema company, Loew's Inc., but also its prodigious production subsidiary, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. After much shuttling between London, Manhattan and Hollywood, Isidore Ostrer and Nick Schenck were able to sit down with Joe Schenck last week and face the Press united...
...lessen the problem of proving that a person "is violating" the law, past tenses were belatedly inserted in the old Act. It was on that technicality that the courts tossed out the Government's case against Speculator Arthur Cutten...
Promising to repeat its victory of last year, Lowell House now leads it nearest rival for the House All-Round Championship Trophy by 55 points. Although Winthrop as runner-up can lessen the gap with victories in their three remaining contests by about 21 points, there is no hope of dislodging the Bellboys from their top position...
...still a school girl during the War, but not too young to remember what happens when enemy planes ride over a town. I knew then that what I wanted more than anything else in the world was to do something to lessen this horror. When I was in the university laying bricks, mixing cement and learning how to erect steel girders, I began to figure out a way to perfect something which would conserve not only human life but materials. These bombproof houses are the result...
...principle of taxation deliberately applied in order to help, rather than hinder, the natural workings of the capitalistic system; to lessen, rather than increase, the growing rigidities, would appear to be essential if that system is to survive. As compared with Soak-the-Investor taxation, and the rigidities of monopoly, price fixing, wage fixing, and output fixing of the N.R.A., the Wagner Bill, and the A.A.A., this new principle looks like something straight from the angels. It is extremely sad that Roosevelt should again have betrayed what promised to be a great idea by the stupidity with which he worked...