Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University of Wisconsin, more recently a pundit for J. Walter Thompson Co. During the year, Censor Gardner reported, drug manufacturers submitted $70,000,000 worth of advertising copy for approval. The advertised products ranged from Absorbine Jr. to Zymole Trokeys. A number of newspapers and magazines and the Mutual and Yankee radio networks, boasted the drug business censor, agreed to disseminate no advertising which he did not approve. Blacklisted with no appeal are drugs which claim to treat Bright's disease, tuberculosis, cancer, infantile paralysis, heart disease...
...Seeking information on the meeting in 1927 at which the sale was decided upon, Counsel Becker subpoenaed A. T. & T. Directors George F. Baker, chairman of Manhattan's First National Bank; and David Franklin Houston, President of Manhattan's Mutual Life Insurance Co., onetime Secretary of the Treasury under President Wilson. Neither could remember the reasons for the sale. C. A. T. & T. long-distance earnings between 1913 and 1935 were shown to have been $400,000,000, or an annual return of 10.9% on investment despite several voluntary rate cuts. In the same period the associated companies...
...tobacco bills accept the Supreme Court's dictum that crop control, if any, is a function for the states rather than for the Federal Government. The essence of the new scheme is that individual states operating by mutual arrangement under identical state laws shall impose penalties on farmers who grow more than their quotas. Such state control, however, does not eliminate the Federal Government from the picture. Says the Constitution: "No State shall, without the consent of Congress . . . enter into agreement or compact with another State." Last week's law was drafted to give the necessary Congressional consent...
Able Dictator Kamâl Atatürk is well aware that he needs Britain's support before proceeding to fortify the Dardanelles. Last November he promised Britain Turkey's mutual assistance in case Italy should go on the rampage in the Mediterranean. Last week, the day after he received the British note promising a conference, Europe was astonished by a report that Turkey had already sent soldiers into the demilitarized zones. The British Foreign Office cautiously registered "disbelief." British newspapers were unexcited. The false rumor had been as effective as if it had been an official trial...
...utilizing the resources of these intellectual centers in a joint effort to face the primary problems in the realm of public affairs. Out of such a movement can only come a better comprehension of those questions in which every citizen should have an active interest, and a better mutual relationship in the pursuit of progressive education. --The Daily Princetonian