Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hopkins salaries, ranging up to only $9,000, are lower than most. Well worth the difference to most of its faculty scholars are their freedom and prestige, plus their snugly satisfying communal life in the pleasant residential section off the trim, spacious, Georgian campus at Homewood, three miles north of Baltimore's business centre. Nonetheless President Bowman soon discovered in his University symptoms of the creeping paralysis caused by financial malnutrition, signs that the decline which Hopkins fears had already begun. Before he had been long in office, famed Experimental Psychologist Knight Dunlap departed after 19 years at Hopkins...
Play begins with a Speaker (cello-voiced Morris Carnovsky) appearing in the orchestra pit. In logical, compassionate language he explains that this story is going to be concerned with a young boy who is caught and destroyed between the mill wheels of the upper and lower classes, with neither of which does he succeed in identifying himself. Here is the boy (a light finds the face of Clyde on the dark stage). Here is one girl (a light finds Roberta). Here is another (out of the darkness springs the face of Sondra). Both are equally young, equally beautiful. But Sondra...
...universal and highly developed practice of copying original styles. By the early Depression years it had gone so far that no exclusive model was sure to remain exclusive for 24 hours; a dress exhibited in the morning at $60 would be duplicated at $25 before sunset and at lower prices later in the week. Sketching services made a business of it; delivery boys were bribed on their way to retailers...
Prime fact about these agreements was that since the manufacturers who belonged to the Guild did business chiefly in dresses priced not lower than $16.75 wholesale, the protection of styles did not extend to lower-priced dresses. Business mortality in the higher-price field was soon diminishing, and more & more manufacturers began to do their own designing, confident that style piracy had been effectively outlawed. As the Guild's power increased it made rules against special concessions to retailers, forbade sales to associated retailers - such as Associated Merchandising Corp. - who bought in groups, and made it hard for retailers...
Retail merchants were disturbed by this addition to the Guild's activities. It was one thing to guard against copies in expensive lines and another thing to give the same attention to lower priced dresses, which are bought in greater quantities and sold to people who cared not at all whether they were copies or not. The retailers did not like the prospect of competing in these lines under Guild restrictions with the chain stores, which were selling the same lines under no restrictions. They were also irritated by what they regarded as a dictatorial tone in the latest...