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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...generations of Levinthals gave their people rabbis, the last two of them Bernard Louis Levinthal, at 74 the "Dean of the Orthodox Rabbinate" in the U. S., and his son, Israel Herbert Levinthal, director of the Brooklyn Jewish Centre. The succession was broken when the only male in the present generation, Lester Lazar Levinthal, went to Harvard to study law. Though Helen Hadassah Levinthal could not take her brother's place, she was guided in her studies by a Jewish precept: " 'Study the law for its own sake'-that is, for its richness and beauty, the intellectual...
Like the old woman who lived in a shoe, the medical scientists who housekeep for vitamins have an unmanageable lot of charges. At present, for example, chemists believe that there are eight varieties of vitamin B, at least ten of D. One member of the vitamin B family is also known as vitamin G, another newcomer as factor Y. Two relatives of the C tribe are known as J and P. Most practical name-calling, so far as scientific convenience is concerned, would be to recognize each vitamin by its chemical name. Thus vitamin E would be known as alpha...
...capacity, output can easily be sped up or slowed down. But to speed up much beyond 60% of capacity, time and money must be spent sweeping spider webs out of high-cost idle factories, oil and repairs have to be lavished on obsolete machinery. At such times as the present, orders can be delivered no faster than the economic assembly line is able to move through U. S. industry's many tight spots and bottlenecks...
...standing out by voting 100% "yes." They also believe that unionism has hurt (48.4%) the U. S. more than it has helped (31.8%), that if the unions were to merge into one big powerful union business would be better off (42.9%), worse off (38.5%). Greatest faults of unions at present: unreliable, racketeering, unreasonable leadership. Greatest virtues: raised wages, maintained a living wage, improved working conditions...
...spite of this they think that present U. S. tariffs on manufactured products should be higher (26.6%), lower (10.7%), the same (34.5%). Retailers are slightly more on the high side than manufacturers (for whose benefit tariffs are chiefly supposed to exist) and most strikingly big business is on the low side while small Business is on the high side. Among big manufacturers (over $50,000,000), 7.2% favor higher tariffs with or without qualifications, 32.1% favor lower tariffs with or without qualifications, 25% for no change; small (under $1,000,000) business votes 41.6% for higher tariffs, 9.9% for lower...