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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal opinion. The New Deal is the name given to F. D. Roosevelt's political, social and economic program which has for its aim the conservation of America's human and natural resources, guided by the principle of "the greatest good to the greatest number...
...years insurance circles have gossiped about the selling exploits of James Roosevelt: how, after his father's nomination in 1932, the fortunes of his lanky eldest flowered like the lilies in paradise. This week a number of those anecdotes are told publicly in a story, "Jimmy's Got It" by Alva Johnston appearing in the anti-Roosevelt Saturday Evening Post...
...most important in the Guild's brief history. In 1937, it had 11,112 members in editorial departments. Today, the convention was told, the Guild has 16,797 members on its rolls, 13,505 in editorial departments and 3,292 in the newly acquired commercial department jurisdiction. Total number of U. S. editorial workers eligible for Guild membership is about 25,000. Since the last convention, the Guild conducted eleven strikes, more than in all its four previous years. About 450 strikers were involved, more than double the total ever on strike before. Of the eleven strikes, the Guild...
...number and quality of great composers, the present is probably as rich as any period in history. In quantity of untutored, incompetent, fourth-rate composers, it is even richer. Because the public needs time to appreciate first-rate music and because even competent listeners cannot always, at first hearing, tell a crackpot musician from a genius, the work of contemporary highbrow composers is unpopular. The public prefers familiar music of guaranteed workmanship...
When Mr. Efron launched his $1-down plan, Heavyweight James J. Braddock and a large number of chorus girls allowed themselves to be photographed in the act of opening accounts. In three days, 700 people followed their example. In May 1937, across from its main Manhattan office, National Safety opened a branch devoted solely to CheckMaster accounts. By last week, when Banker Efron and other National Safety executives quietly cut into a cake to celebrate CheckMaster's third anniversary, the idea was an open-and-shut success: the base of deposit banking had been broadened considerably. Sixty...