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Vice President James Mooney General Motors Corp.: America's participation in international trade today evidencing an amazing vitality. . . . have not the slightest hesitation in assuring you that the opportunities in this field will be greater than ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Jobs Ahead | 7/9/1934 | See Source »

...conventions they had been sent to cover, behaved much the same as physicians or plumbers or politicians, gathered for an annual meeting. They talked loud about professional standards, damned ''company unions" and even found time to adopt a resolution for the immediate release of Tom Mooney. The most direct attack on the job problem was a recommendation that local Guild negotiations with publishers include such well-recognized union items as the closed shop, the checkoff, dismissal notices, vacations and sick leaves with pay, 40 hr.-five day week, examination of publishers' books, and the right to strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Newshawks' Guild | 6/18/1934 | See Source »

...York, he gave lavish parties for visiting notables, made appropriate speeches at prize fights. He always wore high-heeled polished boots (he bought his first pair of shoes last year for $13.87). His administration was nationally criticized in 1932 when he refused to pardon famed Convict Tom Mooney, and in 1933 when he declared he would pardon the lynchers of the kidnap-murderers of Brooke Hart if they were arrested (TIME, Dec. 4). Frank F. Merriam succeeds him as Governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 11, 1934 | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

Henry Ford's course was straight and clear. But General Motors' price-upping seemed to conflict momentarily with the views of one of its own high priests of industrial economics. Vice President James David Mooney, in charge of exports, had declared in his book The New Capitalism published scarcely two months ago: "High prices, particularly if they are out of balance, tend to destroy the interchange of goods, and cause a starved flow of goods to consumers. Such prices destroy purchasing power, dry up demand, create unemployment, and lower the standard of living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Prize Pupil | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

...Vice President James David Mooney, in charge of exports, announced that Dr. Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague, who quit Washington in a huff over President Roosevelt's money plans, had been retained as an adviser on foreign trade and exchange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Detroit Doings | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

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