Word: standardism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today, Miss Densmore's principal concern is in getting her thousands of Indian recordings transferred to permanent, standard phonograph discs. Of her past adventures and hardships she speaks modestly. Says she: "I have no special philosophy, but nothing downs...
Time was when a course in oratory was standard preparation for a political career. Today a shrewd campaigner takes lessons in radio technique. But radio campaigning is a young art, ripe for experiments, knotty with problems. Last week New York's ding-dong gubernatorial race produced one of each...
...authenticity, to run through the whole amazing chronicle of aviation. For its intention and for its photographic content the picture deserves to rank as one of the year's most important productions. Were the narrative, the writing and the acting in Men With Wings up to the same standard, it would rank as one of the best pictures ever made. Unfortunately, they...
...station's staff began to pay particularly close attention to illegitimate infants whom it placed in foster homes. Average I. Q. of these 275 children's mothers was 87, and their fathers were mostly unskilled laborers with little education. The parents were rated "poor stock" by every standard...
...gathering was the proposed elimination of tax-exempt securities. After hearing Chief Counsel John Philip Wenchel of the Bureau of Internal Revenue expound the New Deal doctrine that tax exemption should be ended in order to pump stagnant savings into use, then hearing Banker David Wood rebut with the standard argument that taxing tax-exempts would violate State rights, the assembled investment bankers resolved in favor of eliminating tax exemption on future issues. But this was no New Deal yessing, for banishing of tax exemption would mean a better market for ordinary corporate bond issues I. B. A. members underwrite...