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Those who went to Washington on Labor questions last week went to see "Madam Queen." Her prestige had grown while others' had shrunk. She received President Green of the A. F. of L. and President Mike Tighe of the steel workers with their proposals for settling steel's labor troubles. She took the plan to the White House, explained it to the President, stood by while he interviewed the union men. To leave no doubt of her new importance the President issued a formal announcement: "I have referred the proposal to the Secretary of Labor for careful study...
...Zuercher Zeitung, and those that could read French, the eminently respectable Journal de Geneve. Like the attentive public of Fan-dancer Sally Rand they never saw what they were looking for. but they never lost hope. And month after month the circulation and income of Nazi newspapers has shriveled & shrunk. That German reader interest was down to a new low concerned Herren Hitler and Goebbels much less than the fact that the decline in advertising had adversely affected all local trade and economic conditions in general. Two months ago one of the two or three most eminent papers in Germany...
Suggestions: 1) That you restrict the questions to 20; that the spacing be shrunk to permit an adequate box at the end of the column; that you therein insert something similar to the following: "Do you also carefully read TIME'S advertising? For instance, where did 104,000 buyers spend $137,000,000 in 1933? (pp. 8-9)." 2) That you charge advertisers for the additional squib, allowing it to one or rotating it among all. Or, if used without charge, it will substantiate your claims of "TIME-the different magazine" in dealing with prospective advertisers. 3) That...
...once thrived and multiplied they were now dying by thousands. Causes: 1) farming; 2) drought. Farmers have drained and ploughed under or turned into grazing larid 80% of the small bodies of water which once dotted the land. Half the rest have dried up. Many a large lake has shrunk or vanished completely. With the water have gone the plants which ducks once used for food or cover...
...such advance talk, New Yorkers jammed a theatre to overflowing this week for the U. S. debut of Serge Lifar. But when the evening was over consensus was that Lifar's "mantle" was threadbare and worn beyond recognition. If it had ever been Nijinsky's it had shrunk to a loincloth. Like Nijinsky, everyone wanted to know if Lifar could jump. He could and it was a pretty jump, but not impressively long or high. He could do smooth, floating arabesques. He leaped once into the air. did a picturesque wriggle and landed gracefully curled...