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...final meeting of the year the HYRC also asked the Department of Justice "to investigate the following proposition: Whether the Federal Government of the United States is a 'conspiracy in restraint of trade' in violation of the anti-monopoly provisions of the Sherman Anti-Trust...
...have one there. Debbie Reynolds is a battle-fatigued Snow White who flees from the hurly-burly of life as a movie star to her place in Connecticut, and discovers six dwarfs and a dog living in a greenhouse at the bottom of the garden. Their names are Leo, Sherman, Dulcie, Amy, Brenda, Sonny and Butch. Leo is the grumpy one, and Sonny won't talk. In scenes brimming with heigh-ho, Debbie and the tots, who are really the abandoned children of a migrant tobacco picker, go about housekeeping chores with more madness than method. Then Prince Charming...
Drinking at Home. "I'll be damned if we're not selling more ashtrays than drinks." says white-haired Sherman Billingsley, owner of Manhattan's Stork Club, where business is off 35% and the waiters have just taken a 15% cut in pay. Among expense-accounters who still turn out, Billingsley professes to see a loss of morale and to hear talk of cutting maids from six days to three, and wearing colored shirts ("You can wear them for two days instead of one"). He is also plagued by chiselers begging for blank customer receipts, the post...
...neglected to mention one other solution that could help prevent such affronts to the public interest as the newspaper strike: make labor unions subject to the provisions of the Sherman Antitrust Act by changing the Norris-La Guardia law, which now exempts labor unions from the provisions of the Sherman Act. It is going to take some doing, but this little piece of harness would protect the public, protect the worker, and lead to the greatest business boom in history...
There is a tendency among Jews to laugh off the elements of their culture that are in fact ugly. The most vulgar financial preoccupation has been made the substance of frivolity: witness the well-paid boor, Allan Sherman. At the same time, there seems to be a process of counter-assimilation (to the extent that a nation's theater and humor are an index of its culture, America is becoming increasingly 'Jewish'). The country is adopting only those strains of Jewish culture that reenforce its own social outlook--substitution of financial concerns for humane ones, the apotheosis of anonymity...