Word: nationalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What particular people are most popular with the motion picture audience? The motion picture audience is the nation-wide voting population...
...famed law team of Tommy Corcoran & Ben Cohen. Administrator Andrews' choice of textiles as the first industry to regulate is really their choice, as the best industry in which to invite the law's test case. Reasons: 1) Textiles constitute a big section of "the nation's No. 1 economic problem" (the South). 2) Wage-hour conditions in the textile industry are notoriously vulnerable. 3) Textile labor is well-organized and politically effective. 4) As the son of a Rhode Island textile lawyer. Tommy Corcoran knows plenty about low textile wages...
...county seats of South Carolina were wide awake last week. Through them since early summer had been traveling two political circuses: a party of eight candidates stumping for nomination as Governor; a trio wrangling over a Senatorship. The nation watched the trio for in it was Senator Ellison DuRant ("Cotton Ed") Smith, 74, dean of Senate Democrats (30 years), upon whose classic brow Franklin Roosevelt had placed his angry Purge mark. Governor Olin Dewitt Talmadge Johnston, 41, was the Purge's agent and candidate. Third man was State Senator Edgar A. Brown. 50, able parliamentarian, former Speaker...
...Cartoonist Jack Knox of the Memphis Commercial Appeal expressed some Southerners' feelings about "the nation's No. 1 economic problem." He showed Uncle Sam stepping on his own toes, exclaiming: Oh! Oh! Something is wrong with my right foot...
Compensating for such troubled areas are I. T. & T.'s interests in quiet spots like France, England, Australia, Peru and Argentina. Argentina is the company's pet. Since I. T. & T. bought United River Plate Telephone Co., Ltd. in 1928. that booming southern nation has expanded its I. T. & T. phones from 194.500 to 345,186. The present Argentine system, valued at $89,500,000, is I. T. & T.'s largest foreign investment in a single country. Last year it provided nearly...