Word: self
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Classifications vertically mean Mild Belly Ache, Acute ditto; Cramps and Ulcers are self-explanatory...
...first time in more than a decade. Occasion was the arrival in New York of Mme Magdeleine La Ferriére ("Magda de Fontanges"), Parisian journalist and actress who last spring pinked France's one-time Ambassador to Italy Count Charles Pineton de Chambrun for breaking up her self-confessed romance with Benito Mussolini (TIME, March...
...spoke with feeling and sincerity. The report itself was a monumental document of 40,000 words. No desiccated aggregation of charts and tabulation, it was a bluntly dispassionate analysis of a national problem that has been obscured for a generation in a curious combination of nostalgic sentiments and cunning self-interest. A more hard-boiled document has never come out of official Washington than the Maritime Commission's Economic Survey of the American Merchant Marine...
...Lippmann would say that there is a great difference between the conduct of labor unions seeking more pay for less work under the New Deal, and the labor organizations which he plans for his liberal state. His labor organization, far from being a selfish, self-seeking pressure group, would merely use its power to ensure a nice balance between the bargaining power of capital and labor. Just who is to tell when this perfect equilibrium is reached and who is to keep labor within such bounds...
...halls of the rambling Greenbrier Hotel, 565 I.B.A. members began many a ponderous investigation into the fundamental causes for such fiascos as the Pure Oil issuance. Since 1929, when new capital issues reached a staggering $8,639,000,000, investment banking has been but a shadow of its former self, refusing to revive along with business recovery. Only refunding has been on the rise. In 1929 refunding amounted to $1,387,000,000. Last year new financing was a paltry $1,190,000,000 and refunding was all of $3,300,000,000. Behind this change of emphasis...