Word: likings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Regarding your story, "Press v. Lindbergh" [TIME, June 19], I would like to add my own epitaph to a hero...
Very definitely would I like to second Norman VV. Geare's plea for Monday holidays [TIME, June 26]. I will accept Mr. Geare's arguments to the industrialist, for in them I am only secondarily interested. I speak for the average man, many of whom, I know will agree with me when I say that more often than not midweek holidays are a nuisance rather than a help. There is little one can do with one day to get a rest other than to go to bed for the day. With a three-day weekend all sorts...
...city as a whole); the median rent in its crowded, stinky black-holes is $50 a month; in the city at large, $35. "The first race riot in New York was in 1712. The most recent was in 1935. The last is not yet." But Negroes like their Harlem. ("I'd rather be a lamppost on Lenox Avenue [Harlem's Main Street] than Governor of Georgia...
...evening last week, genial, popeyed Jerome Frank made his maiden appearance as chairman of SEC, at the maiden dinner of Manhattan's Association of Customers' Brokers, at which bigwig brokers like Carle Conway and Paul Shields were much more in evidence than customers' men. Chairman Frank seized the occasion to issue, not an SEC blast against Wall Street, but a solemn warning and appeal for cooperation...
...Macy) "accepts customers' cash for deposit against future purchases. But . . . these deposit accounts are not commingled with the general funds of the store. They are deposited with a totally separate banking company set up under State banking laws and supervised and examined periodically by State banking authorities just like any other bank. The store itself never sees a red penny of these deposits until after a purchase has been made," in fact customers receive interest on them...