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...Arnold makes his suit stick, the U. S. tobacco industry will have the rare distinction of being trust-busted twice in 30 years. The late, great James Buchanan Duke had built up a well-nigh invulnerable trust by 1910, controlled the market for every tobacco product but cigars. Roosevelt's and Taft's trustbusters broke it into pieces, rearranged the pieces so that there were at least two companies making each important product, four important cigaret makers. Those four, American, Liggett & Myers, Reynolds, and Lorillard, plus hefty Newcomer Philip Morris, are the "Big Five" today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Auction-Room Aromas | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

...Persecution of Witnesses merely strengthens them in their belief that they are battling the hosts of Satan, that the millennium is drawing nigh, and that in the great battle of Armageddon-due any day now-the wicked will perish and Jehovah's Witnesses will be saved. "They do not wait to be thrown to the lions; they walk into the lions' den, and bat its occupants over the head with the complete works of Judge Rutherford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Witnesses Examined | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

...last week,'a bare five months before the 1940 elections, Republican Bruce Barton informed his colleagues in the House: "Our people today are in a mood for self-sacrifice. The desire to do something, to give something is well-nigh universal." Recognizing this spirit, Chairman Robert L. Doughton's Ways & Means Committee proposed to give about 8,336,000 more U. S. citizens the opportunity of filing a Federal income tax return, to give some 2,000,000 of them an opportunity actually to pay. "Muley" Doughton & colleagues proposed to lower the minimum taxable income from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Sacrificial Mood | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

...protected against rulings by the National Labor Relations Board in favor of industrial unions. Howard Smith also kept most of what he wanted: permission for employers to talk (but not act) against unions; a new board, reduced in power and tied up in enough strings to choke it well-nigh to death. All that Green & Co. had to do now was to get the amendments through the Senate and past President Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Horse Trade | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

Three all time greats will perform in the Stadium, pits and on the Stadium cinders. Georgetown's gargantuan Al Blozis, a Sophomore, who is 6 feet 5 inches tall and who weighs 240 pounds, and has a well nigh perfect physique, may develop to be one of America's greatest weight men. He already holds the American record in the 160-pound shot put at 55 ft. 10 1/2 in., and he may break this record, the I.C.A.A.A.A. record, and perhaps Jack Torrance's World Record in the Stadium pit, which this week has been enlarged to accommodate Blozis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U. of C., Penn State, Pitt Clash on IC4A Track at Stadium Friday; Lightbody Crimson Hope | 5/28/1940 | See Source »

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