Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week was a big one for the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, better known as I. L. G. W. U. The third edition of Pins and Needles, its famed home-talent satire, opened on Broadway. The rich, well-run union donated $235,000 to refugee aid. And I. L. G. W. U.'s executive committee tossed off a resolution on labor peace. If things go well for labor in the next few months, I. L. G. W. U.'s resolution may be called an important item in labor history. If things go badly...
...look at some facts. Shaw claims that he is leaving the business, despite the fact that his income would have been some six-figured amount. Yet only a few months ago, he signed recording and booking contracts that were to run for two years. When his drummer, Buddy Rich, left to join Tommy Dorsey several weeks ago, Shaw, according to several of the men in his band, offered Rich a large increase in salary, and when Rich refused to stay, told him he could return whenever he wanted to. As far as ascertainable, his recording company, booking agency, and other...
...story is enough to make a mystery fan throw up his hands in abject despair. It concerns a psychic convict fresh from taking the tap for a rich, buccaueering and, of all things, the rich man's murder. There's a nifty bit of Rube Goldbergiana concerning the firing of a pistol, but otherwise the film ends with very little clarification of anything save the fact that Nick Charles leads a very merry married life. However, the conversation sparkles at frequent intervals and Myrna Loy wears a negligee now and then for a man's money this is enough...
...part, Author Thorp thinks, the result is educational. "The new rich . . . wanted to know all about high-powered cars, airplanes, ocean liners, yachts, villas, exotic food, wine, jewels, Paris dresses, perfect servants; and De Mille told them...
...millionaires to grab economic control of the country and throw $50,000 parties, but these victories also resulted in the Populists, the Knights of Labor, the Sherman Anti-Trust law, the first Federal income taxes. Further victories for wealth inspired further income taxes, inheritance taxes, soak-the-rich propaganda...