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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...racket.† More significant was a probation report published the same day. In detailing the life & works of Convict Jimmy Hines, 62, with data gathered from Hines's family, friends, neighbors, District Attorney's office and Hines himself, the report gave ordinary citizens who often damn but seldom understand political bosses, a first-rate picture of how such bosses grow, what makes them tick, how they can go wrong. Hines highlights and shadows...
Much in the minds but seldom on the tongues of wise men in C. I. O. and A. F. of L. is Rearmament's impact on U. S. Labor. They are well aware that in time of Preparedness, unions may have to take a beating when their interests conflict with those of Army or Navy...
...symphony orchestras employ unemployed musicians. But they seldom draw crowds or move their listeners to rafter-raising applause. An exception to this rule is Chicago's WPA orchestra, the Illinois Symphony. When it was first organized in 1935 the Illinois Symphony was one of the Federal Music Project's ugly ducklings. For a year it bettelhtooped almost unnoticed. In the summer of 1936, the Music Project's pompous national director, Nikolai Sokoloff, went to Chicago to rehearse it for a concert under his own baton. When he heard it play he was afraid to be seen...
...world. Reason : the quiet, didactic speaker was Joseph Stalin, and his well-behaved class was the 18th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Although nothing like the rants which Herr Hitler broadcasts to the world, the speech was a big event-both because Stalin seldom sounds off on Russian and international affairs, and because the Congress was the first in five long years during which the repeatedly purged Communist Party has come to look as little like its former self as a muzhik who has shaved off his beard...
...designated watchdog of the Sherman and Clayton antitrust acts for 24 years, FTC has had more experience coping with monopoly than any other Government agency, seldom lets a week go by without cracking down on at least one corporate offender. Last week, prefacing a review of FTC's dealings with steel, milk, artichokes, cheese, liquor, fish, poultry, Mr. Ballinger stuck pretty much to generalities. His main point turned out to be the familiar FTC complaint that it has been unable to limit the growth of monopoly because the Clayton act forbids only corporate combinations through stock purchase, does...