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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taxpayers had reason to be thankful that they did not live in Britain where the Government hires common informers (generally discharged employes) to tattle on tax evaders. Payment to common informers in 1933 was ?535 ($2,675), far less costly than a house-to-house canvass by CWA workers...
...which gives the play its name. Says he: "The dairymaid fears confiscation of her cow; the peasant, forcible collectivization; the Soviet worker, perpetual purging of the Party; the political worker, the accusation of lukewarmness; the scientific worker, the accusation of idealism; the technical worker, the accusation of sabotage. "We live in an epoch of great fear. Fear forces the talented intelligentsia to deny their mother ... to falsify their social origin. . . . Man is becoming suspicious, secretive, disloyal, slovenly, unprincipled. Fear breeds idleness, train delays, interrupted production, general poverty and hunger. No one does anything without orders, without reference to the blackboard...
...happily as a poor person could be I have a daughter 19 years, in high school. W. Broadway, and 193rd or 96th St. and can't recall which one. and this particular person has almost broke up my home, telling my wife he is God and she will live always and never die. she turned in her insurance with the Metropolitan after 12 years, surrendered her policy claiming this man say they don't want no colored people in this insurance and will live forever., when I come in off the Road she put on her coat...
...still filled with whale oil, the bathtubs are tin, the portraits 150 years old. She is briskly sentimental with an octogenarian admiral (William Ingersoll) who has thoughtfully dissembled his love for 60 years, tries to persuade her young nephew (Tom Douglas) to give up his Wall Street career and live with her. He promises to show his fiancée when he finds a girl who does not mispronounce Rockefeller. With these gentle snobbish strokes, the stage is set for the introduction of the nephew's girl (Peggy Fears). He meets her at a vulgar tycoon's party...
Among its disciplinary measures of the year the Society reported arrests of two people for throwing live cats into furnaces, one for strapping a turkey to roller skates (TIME, Dec. 18), two for biting the heads off live rats...