Word: pre
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From an exterior viewpoint, "Jim" Good represents an element in the administration satisfying to a large portion of the public. The West, of course, is pre-eminently satisfied by claiming the President. Among the ranking Cabinet members, the East can look with pride upon the Messrs. Stimson and Mellon at the No. 1 and No. 2 positions. At No. 3 comes Mr. Good, of the Midwestern midwestern, more citified than Vice President Curtis, less tycoonesque than Secretary Lamont. While Yale men point with pride to Statesman Stimson, and Harvard men to Secretary Adams, Secretary Good is satisfying to that large...
...Southern industrial leaders are still clinging to the discarded and discredited wage theories and working conditions of the pre-War period. It is still believed and practiced that low rates of pay are synonymous with low labor costs. . . . The labor union has not been accepted as a permanent and inevitable institution in modern industrial life...
Married. Playwright Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, lately divorced (TIME, July 15); to Carlotta Monterey, actress (The Hairy Ape), divorced wife of Illustrator Ralph Barton (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes); in Paris. In a pre-nuptial contract, world-wandering Playwright O'Neill agreed to lease for 13 years the great Chateau de Plessis at St. Antoine Du Rocher, 25 miles from Tours, with a 600-acre game preserve. Miss Monterey also required installation of a roof garden, gymnasium, swimming pool...
...Nicely pre-arranged was the ceremony of acceptance. Heading the committee was August Heckscher, octogenarian philanthropist, whose slum elimination project on the city's lower East Side Mayor Walker has helped. A change in the city administration might disturb Mr. Heck-scher's chief philanthropic hobby...
...main road, a third man will come along with a virulent poison which is death on mice and there will be no longer any demand for mouse-traps." Pointing to the manner in which phonograph makers adapted their products to the radio, he says: "The pre-radio phonograph is absolutely dead. . . . The modern phonograph industry is alive and flourishing. . . . They [the phonograph makers] did not try to sell mousetraps when mousetraps were out of date...