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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arthur Neville Chamberlain, now Prime Minister, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer when he introduced it in the House of Commons as the National Defense Contribution (TIME, May 3). This bill was to help hugely in paying for Rearmament by taxing of British firms on a sliding scale proportionate to the rate at which their profits have increased this year and continue to increase during Britain's five-year Rearmament program. It was to soak the profiteers. In his first weeks as Prime Minister, Mr. Chamberlain was harassed by more high-powered letters of complaint and suggestion personally signed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Simple Simon's Tax | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

...writer, when he knows what it is about and how it is done, grows accustomed to war. ... It is a shock to discover how truly used to it you become. . . But no one becomes accustomed to murder. And murder on a large scale we saw every day. . . . The totalitarian fascist states believe in the totalitarian war. That put simply means that whenever they are beaten by armed forces they take their revenge on unarmed civilians. In this war, since the middle of November, they have been beaten at the Parque del Oeste, they have been beaten at the Pardo, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Creators' Congress | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

Gulping deep the Tuesday morning air to cure their Memorial Day hangovers, Hollywood actors and actresses last week reported for work under a new wage scale won for them by the Screen Actors Guild. From now on, minimum day's pay for extras will be $5.50 instead of $3.20. Cinema cowboys will henceforth get $11 instead of $5 a day. With wages for other low-bracket actors up proportionately, the Guild's new scale affects all companies, makes most difference to bargain-hunting independents, who make 240 of Hollywood's 700 feature pictures a year. Costs will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood Barricades | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

...Federated Motion Picture Crafts (painters, scene designers, hairdressers, make-up artists) which began April 30. By last week, Crafts pickets had been reduced from indignant lines to a single bored armband wearer at each studio gate. On the same day that the actors began working under their new scale, Federal Labor Conciliator Edward A. Fitzgerald arranged a compromise between leaders of the striking group and its rival, the International Alliance of Theatrical & Stage Employes. Basis of the Fitzgerald compromise was that scenic artists and painters, retaining affiliation with the International Brotherhood of Painters got a 10% raise, admission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood Barricades | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

Revolting as Lulu's career is in outline, Composer Berg dressed it in music too peculiar and powerful to be discounted. Throughout he used the twelve-tone scale he learned from Arnold Schönberg, to whom the opera is dedicated. Song forms are woven in so cunningly as not to be obtrusive. A sonata form announces the appearance of Dr. Schön; a rondo suggests his son. The whole orchestra converses gruesomely over one death, lyrically pleads when the composer wanted sympathy for his heroine, strikes an ugly dissonance of shrieking brasses when she is murdered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Again, Lulu | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

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