Word: slicings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sitting in solemn convention in Manhattan's Hotel Waldorf-Astoria last week was the "Congress of American Industry," annual session of the National Association of Manufacturers. If the delegates, some 2,000 strong, were not all Business, at least they were a big slice of it, representatives of the employers of one-half of the country's industrial labor. However, meeting at a time when for the first time in five years the New Deal had been set back on its heels-by a new depression-they were in a new position. For the voice of Business, although...
Australian Angle. Dispatches from Australia pictured this spunky Dominion as aroused last week lest the United Kingdom have any sneaking thought of slaking Germany's land hunger by giving the Nazis a slice of New Guinea held under mandate by Australia. To block this the Dominion's famed and fiery Wartime Prime Minister William Morris Hughes, who at the Versailles Peace Conference was among those chiefly instrumental in having Imperial Germany despoiled of her colonies, has now at the age of 73 been made Australian Minister for External Affairs. Cocked & primed this week was oldster Hughes, ready...
...curve was still on the rise, Chairman Colby Mitchell Chester of General Foods Corp. addressed the Boston Chamber of Commerce. Speaking not only for the makers of Grape Nuts, Post Toasties and Sanka Coffee but also, as head of the National Association of Manufacturers, for a vast and potent slice of U. S. management, Mr. Chester concluded with this prophetic declaration...
Justifiably alarmed were the 2,000 doctors practicing in Washington. If the 116,000 civil employes of the Government there subscribe to the new organization, practitioners will lose a big slice of their business. The doctors hinted at ousting Dr. Brown and his five colleagues from the District medical society, closing Washington's non-Governmental hospitals to them...
...however, are snapshot glimpses of life on its various planes on the Keys: War veterans sent to build the Keys highway, punch-drunk and turbulent, brawling in one of the bars; writers from the artists' colony amorously intriguing; rich yachtsmen, cabdrivers. These candidoes, written too deliberately from the "slice-of-life" point of view, too fortuitously presented in the plot, are not always so fortunate. But most readers will agree that Author Hemingway can rest well content with the knowledge that in Harry Morgan, hard, ruthless, implacable in his lonely struggle, he has created by far his most thoroughly...