Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industry whose wage earners range from Greta Garbo to $4-a-day porters, labor troubles are inevitable, complex and continual. Current Hollywood labor troubles have centred around three groups: actors, technicians, writers. Last week, all three groups contrived to make more progress in one direction or another than they have since the cinema's latest rash of controversies began a month ago (TIME...
...pointed: (1) There is much opportunity in New England industry and business for graduates of New England; (2) A program to promote the increased use of New England college-trained men by New England industry and business is highly desirable as an aid to the economic growth and progress of New England...
...President from his armchair called the changes: "Do-see-do! Down the middle and back again! . . . Swing your partner around to the right." Fledgling newshawks clapped in time to Turkey in the Straw, Dixie and Yankee Doodle. Soon a half-dozen reels, more energetic than polished, were in progress in different parts of the East Room. That evening the President stuck to his armchair instead of retiring early as he does at official parties, and the Press went home as usual in high good humor...
...paintings of Pierre Auguste Renoir are not only great but pretty, as he once said paintings should be, few years go by without a new Renoir exhibition in Paris or the U. S. In 1933 the Chicago Art Institute included a fine roomful of Renoirs in its Century of Progress loan exhibition, and two years ago the Durand-Ruel Galleries showed 30 choice canvases in Manhattan (TIME, March 25, 1935). Last week the most comprehensive U. S. exhibition of Renoir since the painter's death in 1919 drew hundreds of Manhattanites to the Metropolitan Museum...
...time has arrived.'' the President said, "for us to take further action to extend the frontiers of social progress. . . . One-third of our population," he echoed his old refrain, ". . . is ill-nourished, ill-clad, and ill-housed. The overwhelming majority of this nation has little patience with that small minority which vociferates today that prosperity has returned. . . . All but the hopelessly reactionary will agree that to conserve our primary resources of manpower. Government must have some control over maximum hours, minimum wages, the evil of child labor and the exploitation of unorganized labor...