Word: locally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...both sides could be worked out", but certain it is that bloody strife between capital and labor will continue as long as organizations like the C.I.O. established for the deification of an aspiring Mussolini like John L. Lewis know they can count on the support of Federal, State, and local governments to come to their rescue when it appears that man's sacred right to work might be enforced after...
Referring to one cat, Minnie, on the payrolls of the Standard Oil Company (TIME, April 12), I recently met on the island of Rhodes a bewhiskered and short-legged canine named Bippo who is not only the publicly-recognized assistant guardian of the local museum, but actually receives a pension from his government for 13 years of loyal ratsmanship...
...until the arrival of Roosevelt II the old building had never seen the kind of party which he gave there last week, his annual entertainment for the Press. Upwards of 700 people attended, the men predominantly young fellows who work on Washington's newspapers and in the local bureaus of agencies and out-of-town papers ; the women, some wives, some newspaper women but the majority lively young things who spend their days at typewriters or store counters, pretty as debutantes are not. They had the time of their lives in their swankiest $11.98 copies of Paris models, dancing...
...life insurance, of all industries, should have waited so long to institutionalize itself is a minor business mystery. Making up for the wasted years, the industry launched its fifth annual Life Insurance Week throughout the land last week with a series of "Early Birds Breakfasts" (8:15 a. m.). Local agents collected private and public bigwigs to tone up the breakfasts, put on broadcast after dull broadcast, dug up nonagenarian policyholders as living testimonials, prodded museums and universities to feature the memorabilia of insurance, inspired sermons on the "economic, moral and social values ,of life insurance to the individual...
Voluble, enthusiastic, intellectually naive, Before I Forget, especially in its earlier sections, is an appealing record of how a bright, ambitious local boy can fool the city slickers by making good. On the whole, it is a saddening commentary on the changes & chances of U. S. literary life. Burton Rascoe's 44-year-old writing is a shocking reflection on his newspaper training. Such sentences as these, though not typical, are fairly representative: "My grandmother's conversation with, and admonitions to, me were never prefaced by, or attended with, those proverbs from, or references to, the Bible, which...