Word: standardism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Table No. 1, "The Maintenance of Employment," 15 people have been written or interviewed. Those who have accepted definitely are: Dr. Isador Lubin, economist, at present U.S.Commissioner of Labor Statistics; Frank W. Pierce, exeutive assistant to Walter Teagle, president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey; Robert J. Watt, secretary of the Massachusetts Federation of Labor; Ex-Governor Winant, head of the Social Security Board; and Royal Parkinson, manager of personnel activities of the American Optical Company...
...blood. His great uncle was an architect. His father was a member of the Berlin Building Commission. Educated at technical schools in Berlin and Munich, he built his first houses in 1906, by 1910 had already designed an undecorated factory with great screen walls of windows, later a standard practice in the International Style. He was passionately interested in low-cost housing and an architecture that would need to borrow nothing from traditional styles. When the War came, he fought in the Imperial Army, and it was not until after the Armistice that he could get back to his draughting...
Divorced. James Andrew Moffett, 50, vice president of Standard Oil Co. of California, onetime (1934-35) Federal Housing Administrator; by Mrs. Adeline Moran ("Kim") Moffett; in Miami, Fla. Grounds: extreme cruelty, his "ungovernable temper...
Criminal Lawyer (RKO) adds nothing to the standard pattern of courtroom melodramas. Engaged to a girl he does not love and working for a notable criminal, shyster Lawyer Brandon (Lee Tracy) ditches both when he encounters a pretty streetwalker (Margot Grahame) in night court and when he is offered the district attorney's job. This lands him in both marital and legal hot water which reaches the boiling point in the inevitable courtroom finale. Portraying four other court battles as well, Criminal Lawyer obtains its only tinge of interest from the clever cross-questioning tactics of Lawyer Brandon...
...sterilizing" gold imports by putting them in cold storage instead of letting them seep into the credit system (TIME, Jan. 4), the threat of a further expansion in excess reserves has been largely removed. And with the present total shaved to a figure within the reach of the standard tools of credit control-the rediscount rate and open market operations in government bonds-Chairman Eccles is now battened down for a boom blow...