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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more name was mentioned after Mr. Irey finished his paper. Representative Cooper asked who the taxpayer was, previously cited by the President, who had a Bahama corporation and makes his returns every year from a different foreign country with the result that the Treasury cannot catch up with him. His name, Mr. Irey explained, was George Westinghouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Spelling Bee | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

...attend in person but sent deputies to meet with Philip Murray and John Owens of the Steel Workers. Governor Davey proposed a compromise: let the companies sign a labor contract, and let the union promise not to demand the closed shop or checkoff. The meeting was adjourned without result but another was arranged for this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Steel Tempers | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...that the resort's first sand sculptor was a young artist who showed up on the beach one day in the 1890's and molded from a mountain of wet sand a lifelike figure of a scantily-clad young woman clutching a baby. He labeled the result "Cast up by the Sea." The piece so affected passersby on the boardwalk above that they tossed coins down to the artist, who was soon followed to the beach by other itinerant modelers. By 1910 sand sculptors, with bucket, blanket or hat to receive contributions, had become as much an Atlantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sand Sculptors | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...Public Service Commission, in a report dated last month but not released until last week, held that Consolidated's offer was far too generous. Among other criticisms the Commission pointed out that until last year Steam allowed only 1% annually for depreciation, an amount "entirely inadequate, with the result that past earnings have been overstated." What course Consolidated would now take, Consolidated did not reveal. Meantime the Stock Exchange launched an investigation to find out who was responsible for the royal whipsawing received by Steam stockholders in the two big breaks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Condensed Steam | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

Complete superiority over Yale in all crews except the combination was evinced by comparative time trials on the Thames, and confidence in the Harvard camp is reported to have jumped to new heights as a result of the showings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREE HARVARD CREWS PICKED TO SWAMP YALE | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

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