Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Proudly We Hail" is a satire on Cafe Society with international implications involving Mussolini, Hitler, and Roosevelt and their respective countries, and the small nation of Cafeteria, bounded by Central Park East and 42nd street. Cafeteria is a pawn in the power politics of the three dictators, and these complications form the plot...
...comical incongruity, a mousy little man seeking notoriety. A teller in a bank, about five feet two inches tall and an excessively mild and unemotional disposition, suddenly finds fame thrust upon him, for as the supposed killer in defense of a beautiful woman, he is the idol of the nation. The extravaganza with which this plot is unfolded, the surprise twists in the last act and some satirical comment on social climbers, women with pasts, publishers of "pornographic pulp," shysters, bankers, female adolescents who go in for studied moods and histrionics, and male adolescents who are tough, are the chief...
...bootleg liquor it "certainly is not without power to curb financial chicanery and abuses which have brought ruin to millions." Thus, after over two years of catch-as-catch-can in the lower courts, did the utility industry and the Government finally come to the mat before the nation's top tribunal on the major question of the constitutionality of the utility "death sentence...
Economists by nature are the worrying type. Malcolm L. Merriam of the U. S. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce has the job worrying about one of the most vexatious of economic problems -installment selling. If his department is not the nation's greatest authority on installment selling, it has one of the nation's greatest collections of installment selling statistics. Last week the National Retail Dry Goods Association had a convention in the Hotel Pennsylvania in Manhattan. About 5,000 merchants listened without excitement while speakers told them that Federal taxation was oppressive, that labor unions were...
...annual sales volume is about $3,000,000,000. Last week's mobilisation started off with a luncheon in the Red Lacquer Room of Chicago's Palmer House for 457 such friends of the livestock and meat industry as Chairman William Bishop Warner of the National Association of Manufacturers, Hotelman Ralph Hitz, Railroader John Jeremiah Pelley, Editor Glenn Frank, Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick. Convening from all over the nation, the 457 spent 180 minutes eating sirloin beef roast and hearing how the I. A. M. P. was girding up its sirloins to battle against underconsumption...