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...wage pledge. Pierre Samuel Du Pont (I. E. du Pont de Nemours & Co.), Walter Sherman Gifford (American Telephone & Telegraph). Jesse Isidor Straus (R. H. Macy & Co.) declared their companies had not reduced their wage scales since 1929. Walter Clark Teagle said his Standard Oil of New Jer sey had found it necessary to cut workers' weekly earnings by part-time employment but that the base pay rate had been maintained. Distinctly out of harmony with President Hoover was Indiana's Republican Congressman William Robert Wood, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, who last week said: "Either wages should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Next: Wages? | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

...policy of prayerful silence, hoping that Northern Negroes would understand why none of their race can be taken to Houston as delegates; hoping that the South will not mind if National Democratic Chair-man Clem L. Shaver should be ousted and replaced by Mayor Frank Hague of Jer sey City; hoping people noticed, last week, that John William Davis said: "Al Smith ... is highly acceptable to me;" hoping that it was wise to have let word go out, and it did go last week, that Candidate Smith will withdraw from the convention if not nominated by the tenth ballot; hoping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Candidates' Row | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...sey, kut awt "penton building" on ywr letr-hcd, estymed frendz, it is a klyn giv-a-wey, it edmits yw are in a wun-hors sity where rustics now where a few big bildinz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mrs. Jeppe Flayed | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

...last month a small young woman whose chest expansion exceeds that of mighty Jack Demp-sey- traveled from city to city in the U. S. Every night but Sunday she performed a strange rite. Entering a small cubicle engaged for her in advance, she closed the door, molded a blob of wax, placed it on the bridge of her flattish nose. She fastened flesh-tinted court-plaster to her slanting eyes, creamed and powdered her broad cheeks, all so deftly that an Indo-European girl, or at most a Eurasian, left the dressing-room where a little Nipponese had gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Charges | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

Compare this list with Mr. Mun-sey's purchases in Manhattan alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Another Buy | 2/4/1924 | See Source »

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