Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Egyptians. Almost nobody disputes that half a century of British dominance in Egypt, more or less disguised, has acted as the greatest graft-purge in Egyptian history. Standards of administration have been upped and the 14-year reign of the late King Fuad was marked by more material progress in Egypt than the previous 2,000 years. His Late Majesty, however. was a definitely strong Egyptian character, obliged though King Fuad was often to behave as an acceptable British puppet. Behind the scenes and at moments when British pressure was relaxed. Fuad I was always wangling this or that concession...
Optimistic Joe Weber expected to settle the hash of broadcasters the first four days of last week. At week's end, however, radio conferences were still going strong & stormily. What progress the A. F. of M. was making nobody would say. But few were naïve enough to suppose that such powerful chains as National Broadcasting Co. and Columbia would accept Boss Weber's demands without a fight...
...distressingly slim (13% for the June quarter).* Gloomed Mr. Sloan: "Much might be said as to the effect of increased selling prices on the course of the recovery movement........ . The hope might be expressed, however, that sooner or later the fact will be recognized that sound and desirable progress, reflecting a higher standard of living, never can be made possible by the policy of arbitrarily increasing wages, shortening hours and reducing efficiency, without regard to the effect on real prices. Higher real wages and shorter hours-highly desirable objectives-are a by-product of technological advance. It is an evolutionary...
...echoed the old-time Whiffenpoof Song, Yale's Rudy Vallee croons it to radio millions in an arrangement of his own. It rang last week as far away as the primeval redwoods of California's Bohemian Grove, where the annual Jinks of the Bohemian Club were in progress. It also rang in a Manhattan court, where G. Schirmer, Inc. and Miller Music, Inc. were disputing which had the publication rights...
Marriage Revealed. David Jerome Hopkins, 22, son of Works Progress Administrator Harry Hopkins; to Cherry Blossom Preisser, of the dancing Preisser sisters; in Gretna, Miss., across the river from New Orleans; on June...