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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...funds, wryly revealed that since Boys Town appeared (TIME, Sept. 12), contributions have totaled $5,000 less than last year and are much slower in coming in. His explanation: The cinema makes out Boys Town to be a firmly established institution, gives the impression that Father Flanagan is the sort of financial wizard who can make shekels out of a shoestring...
...penny a week he used to pay as dues to the National Union of Railwaymen. Because he failed to pay up, the union dropped him. Because he was no longer a union man, to porters, pitchers, ticket collectors, out-goods and cartage men everywhere he traveled he was a sort of hot supercargo, a one-man affront to the cherished principle of "complete membership" (closed shop). At Euston and St. Pancras 800 men stopped work. To Camden Town Depot, to the Smithfield Markets the stoppage spread. Soon 4,000 workers were clamoring for Gwilliams' buttons...
...This sort of forthright reorganization is almost unprecedented in U. S. railroad history. Before Depression I railroads went through reorganization much as a snake sheds its skin, with bondholders forced to split the loss with stockholders and with railroads often left in just as bad a fix when the shedding was over. After the Federal Bankruptcy Act was amended in 1933 to give ICC power to supervise or rewrite reorganization plans and to allow roads to continue operating with their debts in a sort of suspended animation (Section 77), there came a complete cessation of reorganizations. For nearly five years...
Among his many roles, Franklin Roosevelt sometimes plays a sort of policeman, signaling stop & go to commodity prices. Year and a half ago he signaled stop with such success that prices broke the world around. Three weeks ago the "White House Spokesman" warned that certain commodity prices must not be allowed to run away. Copper, for example, should not be allowed to reach 18? again. Though copper has often been a runaway (in 1916 reaching an all-time high of 31.89?), it got no higher than 17? last year, then dropped to 9? this summer...
...Dionne Quintuplets. In this, their third full-length screen appearance, they give no impression of taking their profession seriously. In the first place, none of the quintuplets has bothered to learn English. In the second place, what they speak, although it sounds vaguely like French, is really some sort of squirrel talk, whose complete unintelligibility to outsiders appears to delight rather than distress the Dionnes...