Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horse of the theatre, father of Alice Brady, husband of Grace George, who rose from the Bowery by promoting everything from prize rights (Jim Corbett) to plays, tells in his own or somebody else's racy lingo how he reached the top of the Main Stem...
Work of the Commission, said Landis, falls into three main divisions: control of the issuance of new securities, control of established securities and control of exchanges to insure fair play by both investor and trustee. Due to false reports, shoddy accounting, and inability to force reports in many cases, the disclosure of security fraud is more difficult than checking evil exchange practices...
...local factors such as a big job in a small town or refusal to work for an unpopular contractor. The tightly organized labor unions vociferously deny a shortage, current or threatened, it being obviously to their immediate advantage to have contractors competing for labor. And the locals in the main are against indenturing apprentices. Wages for common labor in the building trades are already above 1929 levels, while skilled labor on the average is near the old highs. The rise has actually been greater than apparent because building mechanics in Depression often worked for considerably less than union scales. What...
...music in San Francisco are matters of diversion. For 60 years Mr. Levison's business has been with disaster by land & sea. Fortnight ago he retired from the presidency to the chairmanship of San Francisco's famed Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. Last week its two main subsidiaries confirmed him in the same change of office. Having thus ended 20 years in active management of the second largest marine underwriter in the U. S. and the largest insurance company on the Pacific Coast, Mr. Levison dived into the den of his huge old house overlooking San Francisco...
...treadmill track. Cars were called "au-to-mo-biles," 25 miles an hour was a devilish pace, a puncture a major accident. Against such a 1904 backdrop, Author Brinig this week published a lengthy (570-page) tale that covered the U. S. from San Francisco to Manhattan, from Main Street in Montana to high life in Saratoga. Readers who flinch at phantoms need have no fear. Author Brinig is content with summoning his ghosts, asks them no embarrassing questions. A chronicle with no discernible moral, message or meaning-except that 1904 has gone forever-The Sisters is a good...