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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Please add my name to the list of those NOT approving your selection for Man of the Year. I was chagrined to find Mrs. Simpson occupying this position of honor...
...apiece. In 1936 the "average" G. M. employe worked 40.2 hours per week, earned 78.6? per hour for a year's total of $1,490. Last week the National Industrial Conference Board announced that, at $36.16, the average weekly earnings of automobile workers in November topped the list of the 25 manufacturing industries which report to it, were 40% above the average...
...still strong in the city and the State. As for the pilgrims of New England, they found their first refuge in Holland, the land of toleration and it was from the port of the City of Leyden- where Princess Juliana studied law-that the ship Speedwell with her historic list of passengers set sail for Southampton, where the Mayflower awaited them. . . . Lucky are the people who can look back to such a history of toleration and strength as can the Dutch!" The 300-year-old Dutch bell of Manhattan's Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas pealed for Juliana. Aboard...
...Princess whose reigning mother is probably Europe's wealthiest woman was about to take as her Prince Consort a pleasant young German of excellent but impecunious family who might well be called Prince Cinderellus. From the moment of his marriage, Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld receives a Civil List from the Dutch Treasury of 200,000 florins yearly...
...case, which he believed a likely one for libel damages, to a law firm which retained as trial counsel dapper Attorney Murray Bernays. They prepared to bring suit against the crack Manhattan advertising agency of William Esty & Co., R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., makers of Camels, and a long list of publications, headed by Crowell Publishing Co.'s Collier's and American Magazine, and including TIME. First suit to get a court decision was against Crowell, asking $75,000. A U. S. District Court threw this suit out on the ground that the advertisement was "not libelous...