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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...things that make the Great Waltz worth going to see are Hazard Short's brilliant stage effects, the lovely evolutions of the Albertina Rasch ballet--and, above all, the Strauss Waltzes which weaves their way through the production casting a spell of Viennese laughter and gayety...
Some sort of law against the boom practices of the Stock Exchange is eminently desirable. So far, under the able direction of Mr. Kennedy, the present law has filled the bill and been approved even by the business men themselves. Surely, now that the breathing spell has arrived, a lawyer as ingenious as Mr. Landis can invent a law which will apply only to dishonesty, and at the same time be octopus-tight. Otherwise, while we thank God and Mr. Roosevelt for fair and paternal despots such as Mr. Landis, we must at the same time, as honest liberals, condemn...
Since "big business" is enjoying a "breathing spell" free from the political fears, the Business School this year may discover what has really happened to Wall Street. It can learn whether its admirable program of public administration satisfies the changed shape of such institutions as J. P. Morgan or whether the rapid measures of the last two years have worked more subtle changes than are yet evident...
...than 2,000,000 shares per day. Up jumped the price of New York Stock Exchange seats to $135,000, more than twice the Depression low. And thus, for two successive days last week following the release of President Roosevelt's letter to Publisher Roy Howard promising a "breathing spell" for Business (see p. 11), the stockmarket made front-page news...
Both brokers and businessmen, however, took the promise of a "breathing spell" with a deal of salt. Some even remarked that, what with the New Deal legislation already enacted, there was precious little room for business to breathe anyway. ''Business and financial judgment may of course be wrong," said the sober Wall Street Journal, "but unmistakably the impression in such quarters was that Mr. Roosevelt favored a breathing spell for industry, not because industry needed it, but because it had become indispensable to Mr. Roosevelt and his Party...