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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once illustrious government will continue. The Treasury may be raided at will, while protection for life and property stands at a low ebb; offices that once attracted the finest men in the Commonwealth will be doled out to political parasites, barnacles on the Ship of State. The old order changeth not, and if Diogenes should come to Boston he would have a long, weary walk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROTTEN APPLES | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

...been adequate to check the growth of many monopolies. Whether or not they might have been adequate originally, interpretation by the courts and the difficulties and delays of legal procedure have now definitely limited their effectiveness. We are already studying how to strengthen our anti-trust laws in order to end monopoly-not to hurt but to free legitimate business of the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Extra | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

...When able 64-year-old Frank Ramsay McNinch was appointed temporary chairman of the Federal Communications Commission last August (TIME, Aug. 30), told to set it in good order, observers who knew McNinch wondered how long it would be before feathers began to fly. Last week they flew. As organized heretofore, the FCC consisted of three principal departments-Telephone, Telegraph and Broadcast, each with its own $7,000-a-year director. In Washington last week, Chairman McNinch announced that henceforth the seven-man commission would function as a single unit. Said he: "It is a cause of regret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOARDS & BUREAUS: Plucked Feathers | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

...London in 1857. According to the play bills, Kean seems to have been more interested in the historical side than in a character portrayal. In his advertisements he even guarantees the "truthfulness and fidelity of the entire picture." He enumerates long lists of books that he has consulted in order to insure historical accuracy. To emphasis this side of the play he inserted between the 3rd and 4th acts a great triumphal procession to supplement the indirect description given by Shakespeare in the conversation between York and the Duchess. This, the play bill states, is an "historical picture in which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 10/22/1937 | See Source »

Bill Wright '38, Roswell Brayton, Francis Rivinus, and Frank Porter hope to help the Crimson to rise and shine this afternoon, having finished in that order last Friday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARRIERS MEET GREEN, NEW HAMPSHIRE HERE | 10/22/1937 | See Source »

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